bake
/beɪk/noun
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The act of cooking food by baking.
Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole.
A social event at which food (such as seafood) is baked, or at which baked food is served.
(Barbadian, sometimes US and UK) A small, flat (or ball-shaped) cake of dough eaten in Barbados and sometimes elsewhere, similar in appearance and ingredients to a pancake but fried (or in some places sometimes roasted).
verb
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(with person as subject) To cook (something) in an oven.
Example: I baked a delicious cherry pie.
(with baked thing as subject) To be cooked in an oven.
Example: The cake baked at 350°F.
To be warmed to drying and hardening.
Example: The clay baked in the sun.
To dry by heat.
Example: They baked the electrical parts lightly to remove moisture.