bake

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to prepare with dry heat in an oven

   I baked a cake for my partner's birthday.

2. 2
   verb

   to be very hot, due to hot weather or exposure to the sun

   I baked while at the beach.

3. 3
   verb

   To cook (something) in an oven (for someone).

   I baked a delicious cherry pie.

4. 4
   verb

   To be cooked in an oven.

   The cake baked at 350°F.

5. 5
   verb

   To be warmed to drying and hardening.

   The clay baked in the sun.

6. 6
   verb

   To dry by heat.

   They baked the electrical parts lightly to remove moisture.

7. 7
   verb

   To be hot.

   It is baking in the greenhouse.

8. 8
   verb

   To cause to be hot.

   My dad told me about his days in the Navy: He'd agreed to be a guinea pig in exchange for a shorter enlistment. […] They baked him in the sun.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₃g- Proto-Indo-European *bʰh₃g- Proto-Germanic *bakaną Proto-West Germanic *bakan Old English bacan Middle English baken English bake From Middle English baken, from Old English bacan (“to bake”), from Proto-West Germanic *bakan, from Proto-Germanic *bakaną (“to bake”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₃g- (“to roast, bake”). Cognate with West Frisian bakke (“to bake”), Dutch bakken (“to bake”), Low German backen (“to bake”), German backen (“to bake”), Norwegian Bokmål bake (“to bake”), Danish bage (“to bake”), Swedish baka (“to bake”), Ancient Greek φώγω (…