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   Bake

   /bāk/

   

   verb

   • 1. cook (food) by dry heat without direct exposure to a flame, typically in an oven or on a hot surface: "they bake their own bread and cakes" Similar cookoven-bakedry-roastroastspit-roastpot-roastrare:oven
   • ▪ (of food) be cooked by baking: "the bread was baking on hot stones"
   • 2. (of the sun or other agency) subject (something) to dry heat, especially so as to harden it: "the sun has baked the earth a dusty brown" Similar scorchburnsearparchdry (up)desiccatewithershrivelfirebroil
   • ▪ (of a person or place) be or become extremely hot in prolonged sun or hot weather: "the city was baking in a heatwave"

   noun

   • 1. a social gathering at which baked food is eaten: "lobster bakes on deserted islands"

   Word Origin Old Englishbacan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch bakken and German backen.

   Scrabble Points: 10

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