cuocere — meaning in English

English meaning

• bake verb To cook food using dry heat in an oven.
• cook noun A person who prepares food, especially as a job.
• stew noun A dish of meat and vegetables cooked slowly together in liquid.

Senses

cuocere is used for these senses in English:

• bake (transitive, or, intransitive, or, ditransitive, with person as subject) To cook (something) in an oven (for someone).
• bake (intransitive, with baked thing as subject) To be cooked in an oven.
• bake (transitive) To dry by heat.
• cook (ambitransitive) To prepare food for eating by heating it, often combining with other ingredients.
• stew (intransitive, figuratively) To suffer under uncomfortably hot conditions.

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.

cook — full definition

1. noun A person who prepares food, especially as a job.
2. verb To prepare food by applying heat.
3. verb (slang) To manufacture illegal drugs, especially methamphetamine.
4. verb (informal) To tamper with or falsify records or figures.
5. verb (informal) To be doing very well or proceeding successfully.

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