cook
/kʊk/ verbo A1En español: cocinar, cocer, nixquear, cocerse
- To prepare food for eating, typically by heating it, combining it with other ingredients, seasoning it, preparing it for serving, etc. · I'm cooking bangers and mash.· He's in the kitchen, cooking.
- To apply heat to food in the course of preparing it, particularly in a way that transforms it rather than simply making it warmer.
- To undergo cooking. · The dinner is cooking on the stove.
- To smelt.
- To be uncomfortably hot. · Look at that poor dog shut up in that car on a day like today - it must be cooking in there.
- To kill, destroy, or otherwise render useless or inoperative through exposure to excessive heat or radiation.
- To execute by electric chair.
- To hold on to a grenade briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost immediately after being thrown. · I always cook my frags, in case they try to grab one and throw it back.
Plural cook · He/she/it cooks · Pasado cooked · Participio pasado cooked · Forma en -ing cooking
Formas del verbo
- Forma base
- cook
- He/she/it
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- Pasado
- cooked
- Participio pasado
- cooked
- Forma en -ing
- cooking
Phrasal verbs y expresiones
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While she was trying to fix on one, the cook took the cauldron of soup off the fire, and at once set to work throwing everything within her reach at the Duchess and the baby—the fire-irons came first; then followed a shower of saucepans, plates, and dishes.
As for cooking, I mean to begin giving you lessons in that some of these days.
You’ve got to keep your wits about you in cooking and not stop in the middle of things to let your thoughts rove all over creation.
The door led right into a large kitchen, which was full of smoke from one end to the other: the Duchess was sitting on a three-legged stool in the middle, nursing a baby; the cook was leaning over the fire, stirring a large cauldron which seemed to be full of soup.
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