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baking Definition


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bake
verb baked, baking
    tr & intr
    1. To cook (cakes, bread, vegetables, etc) using dry heat in an oven.
      Thesaurus: cook, roast, toast, warm.
    tr & intr
    2. To dry or harden by heat from the sun or a fire.
      Thesaurus: harden, temper, fire, anneal.
    intr
    3. colloq
      To be extremely hot.
Etymology: Anglo-Saxon bacan.





baking
adj
    1. Extremely hot, especially from the sun.
      Form: baking hot (also)
noun
    1. The process by which bread and cakes, etc are baked.
    2. The quantity baked at one time.


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