cake up

Verb

cake up (third-person singular simple present cakes up, present participle caking up, simple past and past participle caked up)

1. (intransitive, transitive) To form (something) or for (something) to be formed into cakes (a block of any of various dense materials).
   • He caked up the dirt.
   • The concrete then cakes up through natural processes.
2. (intransitive, transitive) To cake entirely (of blood or other liquid, to dry out and become hard).
   • All the blood had caked up.
   • An hour of drying out caked up the blood puddle.