bake
/beɪk/ verb A2- To cook (something) in an oven (for someone). · I baked a delicious cherry pie.· She's been baking all day to prepare for the dinner.
- To be cooked in an oven. · The cake baked at 350°F.
- To regularly prepare baked goods. · In some cultures, it is expected that a proper housewife should bake.
- To smoke marijuana. · (Let's bake tonight.)
- To incorporate into something greater.
- To be warmed for drying and hardening. · The clay baked in the sun.
- To dry by heat. · They baked the electrical parts lightly to remove moisture.
- To be hot. · It is baking in the greenhouse.· I'm baking after that workout in the gym.
He/she/it bakes · Past baked · Past participle baked · -ing form baking
Verb forms
- Base form
- bake
- He/she/it
- bakes
- Past
- baked
- Past participle
- baked
- -ing form
- baking
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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“I do not know; I have only heard that an emperor of China had an oven built expressly, and that in this oven twelve jars like this were successively baked.
“’Tis the voice of the Lobster; I heard him declare, “You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair.” As a duck with its eyelids, so he with his nose Trims his belt and his buttons, and turns out his toes.”
Martin will have to drive me in and there’s ironing and baking to do.”
I shall attend to the ironing and baking beautifully--you needn’t fear that I’ll starch the handkerchiefs or flavor the cake with liniment.”
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