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. (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



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