Dictionary Entry
bake
bake is a 4-letter English word with 10 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To prepare, as food, by cooking in a dry heat, either in an oven or under coals, or on heated stone or metal; as, to bake bread, meat, apples. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 11 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To prepare, as food, by cooking in a dry heat, either in an oven or under coals, or on heated stone or metal; as, to bake bread, meat, apples.
- 2transitive verb
To dry or harden (anything) by subjecting to heat, as, to bake bricks; the sun bakes the ground.
- 3transitive verb
To harden by cold.
- 4intransitive verb
To do the work of baking something; as, she brews, washes, and bakes.
- 5intransitive verb
To be baked; to become dry and hard in heat; as, the bread bakes; the ground bakes in the hot sun.
- 6noun
The process, or result, of baking.
- 7verb
cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven
"bake the potatoes"
- 8verb
heat by a natural force
"The sun broils the valley in the summer"
Synonyms
- 9verb
prepare with dry heat in an oven
"bake a cake"
- 10verb
be very hot, due to hot weather or exposure to the sun
"The town was broiling in the sun"
"the tourists were baking in the heat"
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