bake

Meaning

1. To cook (something) in an oven (for someone).
2. To be cooked in an oven.
3. To be warmed to drying and hardening.
4. To dry by heat.
5. To be hot.
6. To cause to be hot.
7. (slang) To smoke marijuana.
8. (obsolete) To harden by cold.
9. To fix (lighting, reflections, etc.) as part of the texture of an object to improve rendering performance.
10. To incorporate into something greater.

roast

grill

become hard

become hardened

set afire

turn brown

burn into one’s memory

braai

cook in an oven

set baking

set cooking

ovenbake

burning-off

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/beɪk/

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 (phṓgō, “roast”, verb).