cooked
(adjective) having been prepared for eating by the application of heat
Source: WordNet® 3.1
cooked (comparative more cooked, superlative most cooked)
Of food, that has been prepared by cooking.
(computing, slang, of an MP3 audio file) Corrupted by conversion through a text format, requiring uncooking to be properly listenable.
(of accounting records, intelligence) Partially or wholly fabricated, falsified.
(slang) Done in, exhausted, pooped.
(slang) Done in, defeated, hopeless.
• raw
• uncooked
cooked
simple past tense and past participle of cook
Source: Wiktionary
Cook, v. i. Etym: [Of imitative origin.]
Definition: To make the noise of the cuckoo. [Obs. or R.] Constant cuckoos cook on every side. The Silkworms (1599).
Cook, v. t. Etym: [Etymol. unknown.]
Definition: To throw. [Prov.Eng.] "Cook me that ball." Grose.
Cook, n. Etym: [AS. coc, fr. l. cocus, coquus, coquus, fr. coquere to cook; akin to Gr. pac, and to E. apricot, biscuit, concoct, dyspepsia, precocious. Cf. Pumpkin.]
1. One whose occupation is to prepare food for the table; one who dresses or cooks meat or vegetables for eating.
2. (Zoöl.)
Definition: A fish, the European striped wrasse.
Cook, v. t. [imp. & p.p. Cooked; p.pr & vb.n. Cooking.]
1. To prepare, as food, by boiling, roasting, baking, broiling, etc.; to make suitable for eating, by the agency of fire or heat.
2. 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. [Colloq.] They all of them receive the same advices from abroad, and very often in the same words; but their way of cooking it is so different. Addison.
Cook, v. i.
Definition: To prepare food for the table.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
14 June 2025
(noun) a member of a learned society; “he was elected a fellow of the American Physiological Association”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
