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Baking Bake Beɪk Bread Baked Verb Bread/Biscuits/Cookies Potatoes/Apples

Word3 bake
WordType (verb)
Phonetic /beɪk/ /beɪk/
Example
  • to bake bread/biscuits/cookies
  • baked potatoes/apples
  • the delicious smell of baking bread
  • the bread is baking in the oven.
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bake

(verb)/beɪk/ /beɪk/

    Verb Forms

  1. to cook food in an oven without extra fat or liquid; to be cooked in this way
    • to bake bread/biscuits/cookies
    • baked potatoes/apples
    • the delicious smell of baking bread
    • The bread is baking in the oven.
    • I've been baking all morning.
    • I'm baking a birthday cake for Alex.
    • I'm baking Alex a cake.
  2. to become hard when heated; to make something hard by heating it
    • The bricks are left in the kiln to bake.
    • The sun had baked the ground hard.
  3. to be or become very hot
    • SEE ALSO half-baked
      https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/half-baked
    • We sat baking in the sun.

    Word Origin

    • Old English bacan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch bakken and German backen.
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