cook
cook is a 4-letter English word with 14 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To make the noise of the cuckoo. 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.
Definitions
- intransitive verb. To make the noise of the cuckoo.
- transitive verb. To throw.
- noun. One whose occupation is to prepare food for the table; one who dresses or cooks meat or vegetables for eating.
- noun. A fish, the European striped wrasse.
- transitive verb. To prepare, as food, by boiling, roasting, baking, broiling, etc.; to make suitable for eating, by the agency of fire or heat.
- transitive verb. To concoct or prepare; hence, to tamper with or alter; to garble; -- often with up; as, to cook up a story; to cook an account.
- intransitive verb. To prepare food for the table.
- noun. someone who cooks food
- noun. English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779)
- verb. transform and make suitable for consumption by heating
"These potatoes have to cook for 20 minutes"
- verb. transform by heating
"The apothecary cooked the medicinal mixture in a big iron kettle"
- verb. prepare for eating by applying heat
"Cook me dinner, please"
"can you make me an omelette?"
- verb. prepare a hot meal
"My husband doesn't cook"
- verb. tamper, with the purpose of deception
"Fudge the figures"
"cook the books"
Synonyms
fix, make, prepare, ready, fake, falsify, fudge, manipulate, misrepresent, wangle
Common word forms
cooks, cooked, cooker, cooking, cookable, cookless
Words from these letters
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