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bake up

bake up verb: to prepare by baking.

Verb

bake up (third-person singular simple present bakes up, present participle baking up, simple past and past participle baked up)

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To prepare by baking.
    • [W]e can celebrate Valentine’s Day in good chocolatoholic style, baking up a veritable chocolate storm with chocolate dessert recipes.1983 January 26, Cathy Mauk, “Chocolate desserts to melt your Valentine’s heart”, in The Forum, volume 105, number 71, Fargo, N.D., →ISSN, →OCLC, page B-4, column 1

Forms of bake up

third-person singular presentbakes up
present participlebaking up
past participlebaked up
pastbaked up

Questions about bake up

What does bake up mean?
Bake up means to prepare by baking.
What part of speech is bake up?
Bake up is a verb.
What is the past tense of bake up?
The past tense of bake up is baked up.

Words near bake up in the dictionary

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

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