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bake

  [beyk] verb, baked, bak⋅ing, noun
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–verb (used with object)
1. to cook by dry heat in an oven or on heated metal or stones.
2. to harden by heat: to bake pottery in a kiln.
3. to dry by, or subject to heat: The sun baked the land.
–verb (used without object)
4. to bake bread, a casserole, etc.
5. to become baked: The cake will bake in about half an hour.
6. to be subjected to heat: The lizard baked on the hot rocks.
–noun
7. a social occasion at which the chief food is baked.
8. Scot. cracker (def. 1).
Origin:
bef. 1000; ME baken, OE bacan, ptp. bōc baked; c. OHG bahhan, past buoh, ON baka; akin to D bakken, G backen, Gk phgein to roast; < IE alternating base *bheHog-, bhəg-
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bake   (bāk)   
v.   baked, bak·ing, bakes

v.   tr.
  1. To cook (food) with dry heat, especially in an oven.
  2. To harden or dry (something) by subjecting to heat in or as if in an oven: bake bricks.
v.   intr.
  1. To cook food with dry heat.
  2. To become hardened or dry by or as if by having been subjected to the heat of an oven.
n.  
    1. The act or process of baking.
    2. An amount baked.
  2. A social gathering at which food is cooked by baking and then served.

[Middle English baken, from Old English bacan.]
baked   (bākt)   
adj.  
  1. Cooked by baking.
  2. Slang Drunk or intoxicated.
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