bake (A2)
verb
Pronunciation: /beɪk/
Definition
To cook food, especially bread or cakes, using dry heat in an oven.
Examples
We will bake a cake for her birthday.
She loves to bake bread on weekends.
The cookies were baked until golden brown.
How to Use bake
- bake something (collocation)
- To cook a specific food item. — "I will bake a pie for dessert."
- bake in (prepositional phrase)
- To cook something inside something else. — "Bake the chicken in the oven for one hour."
- bake out (prepositional phrase)
- To dry or harden by baking. — "Bake out the clay until it is hard."
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