baken

Verb

bake (third-person singular simple present bakes, present participle baking, simple past baked or (dialectal) book, past participle baked or (dialectal) book or (dialectal) baken)

1. (ditransitive, intransitive, transitive) To cook (something) in an oven (for someone).
   • I baked a delicious cherry pie.
2. (intransitive) To be cooked in an oven.
   • The cake baked at 350°F.
3. (intransitive) To regularly prepare baked goods.
   • In some cultures, it is expected that a proper housewife should bake.
4. (figuratively, intransitive, slang) To smoke marijuana.
   • (Let's bake tonight.)
5. (figuratively) To incorporate into something greater.
   • Disagreements between pilots' unions are baked into the merger cake.2014, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Aviation Operations, Safety, and Security, Airline Industry Consolidation: Hearing, page 36
6. (intransitive) To be warmed for drying and hardening.
   • The clay baked in the sun.

   Synonyms:

   fire

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