cooketh

Verb

cook (third-person singular simple present cooks, present participle cooking, simple past cooked, past participle cooked or (rare, nonstandard) cooken)

1. (ambitransitive, generally) To prepare food for eating, typically by heating it, combining it with other ingredients, seasoning it, preparing it for serving, etc.
   • I'm cooking bangers and mash.
2. (specifically, transitive) To apply heat to food in the course of preparing it, particularly in a way that transforms it rather than simply making it warmer.
   • You could just use ordinary shop-bought kecap manis to marinade the meat, but making your own is easy, has a far more elegant fragrance and is, above all, such a great brag! Flavouring kecap manis is an intensely personal thing, so try this version now and next time cook the sauce down with...2015 October 27, Matt Preston, The Simple Secrets to Cooking Everything Better, Plum, →ISBN, page 192
3. (intransitive) To undergo cooking.
   • The dinner is cooking on the stove.
4. (transitive) To smelt.
   • Your suggestion makes sense. You cook iron with coal to get... iron. The coal is expended, where does it go? inside the iron to turn it into steel in real life. I approve2011 February 10, Oventoaster, “Iron items to Steel”, in Minecraft Forum
5. (figuratively, intransitive) To be uncomfortably hot.
   • Look at that poor dog shut up in that car on a day like today - it must be cooking in there.

   Synonyms:

   bake, stew

6. (slang, transitive) To kill, destroy, or otherwise render useless or inoperative through exposure to excessive heat or radiation.
   • You would die from what we might call "extremely acute radiation poisoning" – that is, you would be cooked.2014, Randall Munroe, “Periodic Wall of the Elements”, in What If?, New York, New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 41

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