bake
verb
[ beɪk ]
• cook (food) by dry heat without direct exposure to a flame, typically in an oven.
• "they bake their own bread and cakes"
• (of the sun or other agency) subject (something) to dry heat, especially so as to harden it.
• "the soil in the desert is baked dry by the fierce heat of the sun"
Similar:
scorch,
burn,
sear,
parch,
dry (up),
desiccate,
wither,
shrivel,
fire,
broil,
bake
noun
• a dish consisting of a mixture of ingredients cooked in an oven.
• "a vegetable bake"
Origin:
Old English bacan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch bakken and German backen .
bake
noun
• a person's mouth.
• "shut your bake!"
Origin:
1920s: representing a pronunciation of beak1.
