Bake Definition
bāk
baked, bakes, baking
verb
baked, bakes, baking
To cook (food) with dry heat, especially in an oven.
American Heritage
To cook (food) by dry heat, esp. in an oven.
Webster's New World
To bake bread, pastry, etc.
Webster's New World
To harden or dry (something) by subjecting to heat in or as if in an oven.
Bake bricks.
American Heritage
To make dry and hard by heat; fire (bricks, earthenware, etc.)
Webster's New World
noun
bakes
The act or process of baking.
American Heritage
The act of baking.
Webster's New World
An amount baked.
American Heritage
A product of baking.
Webster's New World
A social gathering at which food is cooked by baking and then served.
American Heritage
Origin of Bake
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From Middle English baken, from Old English bacan (“to bake”), from Proto-Germanic *bakaną (“to bake”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰōg- (“to roast, bake”). Cognate with West Frisian bakke (“to bake”), Dutch bakken (“to bake”), Low German backen (“to bake”), German backen (“to bake”), Danish bage (“to bake”), Swedish baka (“to bake”), Ancient Greek φώγω (phōgō, “roast”, verb), Persian پختن (pokhtan, “to bake”, verb).
From Wiktionary
Middle English baken from Old English bacan
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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