bake Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven
    • bake the potatoes
  2. verb prepare with dry heat in an oven
    • bake a cake
  3. verb heat by a natural force
    broil.
    • The sun broils the valley in the summer
  4. verb be very hot, due to hot weather or exposure to the sun
    broil.
    • The town was broiling in the sun
    • the tourists were baking in the heat

WordNet


Bake transitive verb
Etymology
AS. bacan; akin to D. bakken, OHG. bacchan, G. backen, Icel. & Sw. baca, Dan. bage, Gr. to roast.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Baked ; present participle & verbal noun Baking
Definitions
  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. 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 intransitive verb
Definitions
  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 noun
Definitions
  1. The process, or result, of baking.

Webster 1913