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trocknen — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • bake verb To cook food using dry heat in an oven.
  • cure noun A treatment or remedy that restores health or solves a problem.
  • drain noun A pipe or channel that carries away unwanted liquid.
  • dry adj Free from moisture; not wet.
  • season noun One of the four main divisions of the year — spring, summer, autumn, or winter — marked by particular weather patterns.

Senses

trocknen is used for these senses in English:

  • bake (transitive) To dry by heat.
  • cure (transitive) To prepare or alter, especially by chemical or physical processing for keeping or use.
  • desiccate (transitive) To remove moisture from; to dry; (sometimes) to dry to an extreme degree. [from late 16th c.]
  • drain (transitive, ergative) To convert a perennially wet place into a dry one.
  • dry (transitive, figurative) To exhaust; to cause to run dry.
  • season (transitive, by extension) To prepare by drying or hardening, or removal of natural juices.

bake — full definition

  1. verb To cook food using dry heat in an oven.
  2. verb To harden or dry something using heat.
  3. noun A social event where food is baked or served, or a baked dish itself.

cure — full definition

  1. noun A treatment or remedy that restores health or solves a problem.
  2. verb To restore someone to health, or to fix a problem completely.
  3. verb To preserve food, typically meat or fish, by salting, smoking, or drying.

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