BAKED

baked

(adjective) (bread and pastries) cooked by dry heat (as in an oven); ā€œbaked goodsā€

adust, baked, parched, scorched, sunbaked

(adjective) dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight; ā€œa vast desert all adustā€; ā€œland lying baked in the heatā€; ā€œparched soilā€; ā€œthe earth was scorched and bareā€; ā€œsunbaked salt flatsā€

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

baked

simple past tense and past participle of bake

Adjective

baked (comparative more baked, superlative most baked)

That has been cooked by baking.

(slang) High on cannabis.

Source: Wiktionary


BAKE

Bake, v. t. [imp.& p. p. Baked; p. pr. & vb. n. Baking.] Etym: [AS. bacan; akin to D. bakken, OHG. bacchan, G. backen, Icel. & Sw. baca, Dan. bage, Gr.

1. 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.

Note: Baking is the term usually applied to that method of cooking which exhausts the moisture in food more than roasting or broiling; but the distinction of meaning between roasting and baking is not always observed.

2. To dry or harden (anything) by subjecting to heat, as, to bake bricks; the sun bakes the ground.

3. To harden by cold. The earth . . . is baked with frost. Shak. They bake their sides upon the cold, hard stone. Spenser.

Bake, v. i.

1. To do the work of baking something; as, she brews, washes, and bakes. Shak.

2. To be baked; to become dry and hard in heat; as, the bread bakes; the ground bakes in the hot sun.

Bake, n.

Definition: The process, or result, of baking.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

22 February 2025

ANALYSIS

(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ā€˜the father of the brideā€™ instead of ā€˜the brideā€™s fatherā€™


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