Cook Cooked Kʊk Meal Verb Learn Add Onion

• where did you learn to cook?
• add the onion and cook for three minutes.
• to cook a meal
• to cook food/dinner

cook

Verb Forms

1. to prepare food by heating it, for example by boiling, baking or frying it
• Where did you learn to cook?
• Add the onion and cook for three minutes.
• to cook a meal
• to cook food/dinner
• What's the best way to cook trout?
• I always have a cooked breakfast (= consisting of cooked food)
• He cooked lunch for me.
• He cooked me lunch.

Extra Examples

• I'll cook you a special meal for your birthday.
• Make sure you cook the meat well.
• Ensure that the meat is cooked through.
• The vegetables were cooked perfectly.
• the smell of freshly cooked bacon
• Who's going to cook supper?
2. to be prepared by boiling, baking, frying, etc.
• While the pasta is cooking, prepare the sauce.
• Turn the fish over so that it cooks evenly.
3. to be planned secretly
• Everyone is being very secretive—there's something cooking.
4. to be doing something very well and successfully
5. to change facts or figures dishonestly or illegally
• His accountant had been cooking the books for years.
• Someone was cooking the books.
6. to destroy somebody’s chances of success

Word Origin

• Old English cōc (noun), from popular Latin cocus, from Latin coquus.