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bake someone's bread

bake someone's bread verb: to kill or murder someone.

Verb

bake someone's bread (third-person singular simple present bakes someone's bread, present participle baking someone's bread, simple past and past participle baked someone's bread)

  1. (dated, rare) To kill or murder someone.

Forms of bake someone's bread

third-person singular presentbakes someone's bread
present participlebaking someone's bread
past participlebaked someone's bread
pastbaked someone's bread

Questions about bake someone's bread

What does bake someone's bread mean?
Bake someone's bread means to kill or murder someone.
What part of speech is bake someone's bread?
Bake someone's bread is a verb.
What is the past tense of bake someone's bread?
The past tense of bake someone's bread is baked someone's bread.

Words near bake someone's bread in the dictionary

  1. bake ovens
  2. bake sale
  3. bake sales
  4. bake shop
  5. bake shops
  6. bake someone's bread
  7. bake something blind
  8. bake up
  9. bake-danuki
  10. bake-off
  11. bake-offs

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