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COOKED
cooked
(adjective) having been prepared for eating by the application of heat
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
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.
Antonyms
• raw
• uncooked
Verb
cooked
simple past tense and past participle of cook
Source: Wiktionary
COOK
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. (Zoƶl.)
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
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DOOMED
(adjective) marked by or promising bad fortune; ātheir business venture was doomed from the startā; āan ill-fated business ventureā; āan ill-starred romanceā; āthe unlucky prisoner was again put in ironsā- W.H.Prescott
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