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• prepare (food, a dish, or a meal) by mixing, combining, and heating the ingredients.

• "shall I cook dinner tonight?"

Similar: prepare, make, get, put together, bake, fix, knock up, rustle up,

• alter dishonestly; falsify.

• "a narcotics team who cooked the evidence"

Similar: falsify, alter, doctor, tamper with, interfere with, massage, manipulate, rig, misrepresent, forge, fiddle,

• be happening or planned.

• "what's cooking on the alternative fuels front?"

Similar: happen, go on, occur, take place, go down,

• perform or proceed vigorously or very well.

• "the band used to get up on the bandstand and really cook"

• a person who prepares and cooks food, especially as a job or in a specified way.

• "Susan was a school cook"

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

• alter facts or figures dishonestly or illegally.
"he was an accountant, he could have cooked the books and made himself a lot more money"

• spoil someone's plans; cause someone's downfall.
"I've got enough on you to cook your goose"

• if too many people are involved in a task or activity, it will not be done well.

• heat food and cause it to thicken and reduce in volume.
"cooking down the chutney can take up to 45 minutes"

• devise a clever or devious story, excuse, or plan.
"I've had plenty of time to cook up an outlandish conspiracy theory"