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Cooking

/ˈkʊ.kɪŋ/

To prepare (food) for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.

📖 Definitions of "Cooking"

verb
  1. 1

    To prepare (food) for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.

    "I'm cooking bangers and mash."

  2. 2

    To prepare (unspecified) food for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.

    "He's in the kitchen, cooking."

  3. 3

    To be cooked.

    "The dinner is cooking on the stove."

  4. 4

    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."

verb
  1. 1

    To make the noise of the cuckoo.

verb
  1. 1

    To throw.

noun
  1. 1

    The process of preparing food by using heat.

  2. 2

    An instance of preparing food by using heat.

  3. 3

    The result of preparing food by using heat.

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