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

1. transitive 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.
2. transitive verb. To dry or harden (anything) by subjecting to heat, as, to bake bricks; the sun bakes the ground.
3. transitive verb. To harden by cold.
4. intransitive verb. To do the work of baking something; as, she brews, washes, and bakes.
5. intransitive verb. To be baked; to become dry and hard in heat; as, the bread bakes; the ground bakes in the hot sun.
6. noun. The process, or result, of baking.
7. verb. cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven

   "bake the potatoes"

8. verb. heat by a natural force

   "The sun broils the valley in the summer"

   Synonyms: broil

9. verb. prepare with dry heat in an oven

   "bake a cake"

10. verb. 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"

    Synonyms: broil

Synonyms

broil

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in bake:

beak

Common word forms

baked, baker, bakes, baking

Words from these letters

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