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Baking Baked Beɪk Bake Verb Bre Apples Delicious

Word bake
WordType (verb)
Phonetic BrE / beɪk / NAmE / beɪk /
Example
  • baked apples
  • the delicious smell of baking bread
  • i'm baking a birthday cake for alex.
  • i'm baking alex a cake.
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bake

(verb)BrE / beɪk / NAmE / beɪk /
  1. to cook food in an oven without extra fat or liquid; to be cooked in this way
    • baked apples
    • the delicious smell of baking bread
    • I'm baking a birthday cake for Alex.
    • I'm baking Alex a cake.
  2. to become or to make something become hard by heating
    • 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.

    Verb Forms

    • present simple I / you / we / they bake
    • he / she / it bakes
    • past simple baked
    • past participle baked
    • -ing form baking
Copyright This card's content is collected from the following dictionaries: Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

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