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to bake
01
to cook food, usually in an oven, without any extra fat or liquid
Transitive: to bake food
Examples
Bake the cookies at 350 ° F for 10-12 minutes until golden brown.
She likes to bake bread from scratch on the weekends.
02
(of food) to be cooked in an oven, with no extra liquid or fat
Intransitive
Examples
The cookies bake at 350 ° F for 10 minutes.
The bread needs to bake for an hour.
03
to expose something to dry heat, often from the sun or another source
Transitive: to bake sth
Examples
The sun baked the clay until it became hard and dry.
The desert sun baked the rocks, making them incredibly hot to the touch.
04
to become extremely hot due to prolonged exposure to the sun or intense heat
Intransitive
Examples
The city was baking under the summer sun, with temperatures reaching over 100 ° F.
They spent hours on the beach, baking in the hot sun.
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