Oversalts

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. Puts more salt into a dish than is needed, spoiling its flavor
2. Adds an excessive amount of salt to food while cooking or serving it
3. Seasons something with far too much salt so that it tastes unpleasantly salty

Etymology: "Oversalts" is the third-person singular present form of "oversalt," a verb meaning to put too much salt on or into something. The verb itself is built from the prefix "over-," meaning excessively or beyond the proper amount, attached to "salt," the familiar word for the seasoning, which comes from Old English "sealt." The pattern is a transparent one: "over-" joins many English verbs to signal too much of an action, so "overcook," "overwater," and "oversalt" all follow the same logic.