bake
Third Person
bakes
Present Participle
baking
Past Tense
baked
Past Participle
baked
1
to cook food, usually in an oven, without any extra fat or liquid
transitive
- Bake the cookies at 350°F for 10-12 minutes until golden brown.
- She likes to bake bread from scratch on the weekends.
- Bake the chicken breasts in the oven until they are cooked through and golden.
- The recipe calls for baking the potatoes until they are tender.
- He enjoys baking pies, especially during the holiday season.
2
(of food) to be cooked in an oven, with no extra liquid or fat
- The cookies bake at 350°F for 10 minutes.
- The bread needs to bake for an hour.
- Cookies bake best when spaced apart on the sheet.
- The muffins bake evenly if you don’t overcrowd the tray.
- Cakes bake faster in a convection oven.
3
to expose something to dry heat, often from the sun or another source
transitive
- The sun baked the clay until it became hard and dry.
- The desert sun baked the rocks, making them incredibly hot to the touch.
- The intense heat of the sun baked the ground, cracking the earth's surface.
- The warm breeze baked the soil, making it too dry for planting.
- The hot wind baked the landscape, leaving the vegetation withered and dry.
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4
to become extremely hot due to prolonged exposure to the sun or intense heat
- The city was baking under the summer sun, with temperatures reaching over 100°F.
- They spent hours on the beach, baking in the hot sun.
- The desert landscape baked in the midday heat, with no sign of relief.
- By noon, the entire valley was baking in the sweltering heat.
- The athletes were baking on the field as they played under the scorching sun.
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