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   bake

   /beɪk/

   verb

   • 1. cook (food) by dry heat without direct exposure to a flame, typically in an oven: "they bake their own bread and cakes" Similar cookoven-bakedry-roastroastspit-roastpot-roastrare:oven
   • ▪ (of food) be cooked by baking: "the bread was baking on hot stones"
   • 2. (of the sun or other agency) subject (something) to dry heat, especially so as to harden it: "the soil in the desert is baked dry by the fierce heat of the sun" Similar scorchburnsearparchdry (up)desiccatewithershrivelfirebroil
   • ▪ be or become extremely hot in prolonged sun or hot weather: "the city was baking in a heatwave"

   noun

   • 1. a dish consisting of a mixture of ingredients cooked in an oven: "a vegetable bake"
   • ▪ a social gathering at which baked food of a specified kind is eaten: "lobster bakes"

   Word Origin Old Englishbacan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch bakken and German backen.

   Scrabble Points: 10

   • B

     3

   • A

     1

   • K

     5

   • E

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