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bake

UK/bek/ US/beɪk/ fairly common slang uk us

verb

1.

cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven

  • “bake the potatoes”
2.

prepare with dry heat in an oven

  • “bake a cake”
3.

heat by a natural force

  • “The sun broils the valley in the summer”
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Origin

From Middle English baken, from Old English bacan (“to bake”), from Proto-West Germanic *bakan, from Proto-Germanic *bakaną (“to bake”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₃g- (“to roast, bake”).

Phrases

  • bake bread
  • bake in
  • bake off
  • bake out
  • bake oven
  • bake sale
  • bake shop
  • bake someone's bread
  • bake something blind

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