bakeverb
uk/beɪk/us/beɪk/A2 [ I or T ] to cook inside an oven, without using added liquid or fat:
I made the icing while the cake was baking.
a baked potato
freshly baked bread
Bake at 180°C for about 20 minutes.
Bake for 5–7 minutes in a preheated oven.
a baking dish
UK a baking tin/tray
US a baking sheet/pan
[ I or T ] to make something such as earth or clay hard by heating it, usually in order to make bricks
[ I ] informal to be or become very hot:
It's baking outside.
You'll bake in that fleece jacket!
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- I baked a huge cake this morning, and the kids scoffed the lot.
- The cooking instructions say bake it for half an hour.
- Kelly's mom always used to bake the best cookies.
- Nowadays, I bake my own bread rather than buy it.
- My mother liked to bake.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Preparing food using heat
- barbecue
- baste
- batch-bake
- boil sth up
- boiled
- curry
- flambé
- flash-fry
- fried
- frizzled
- fry
- lightly
- microwave
- precook
- preheat
- render
- render sth down
- rendering
- sauté
- shallow-fry
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