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Definitions of cook:

noun: someone who cooks food
noun: English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779)
verb: transform and make suitable for consumption by heating
Example: "These potatoes have to cook for 20 minutes"
verb: transform by heating
Example: "The apothecary cooked the medicinal mixture in a big iron kettle"
verb: prepare for eating by applying heat
Example: "Cook me dinner, please"
verb: prepare a hot meal
Example: "My husband doesn't cook"
verb: fake or falsify
Example: "Cook the books"
name: A surname (very common: 1 in 833 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #56)

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Words and phrases that have a meaning related to cook: (90 results)
Synonyms:
fake, falsify, fix, fudge, make, manipulate, misrepresent, prepare, ready, wangle

More general:
change integrity, cheat, create from raw material, create from raw stuff, skilled worker, trained worker

More specific:
bake, baste, blanch, boil, braise, brown, chef, coddle, concoct, cookie, cook up, cooky, devil, fricassee, fry, fry cook, grill, juggle, lard, mask, micro-cook, microwave, nuke, parboil, poach, pressure-cook, put on, roast, souse, steam, stew, whip up, whomp up, zap

Often used in the same context:
baker, cooking, food, kitchen, recipe, stove

Appears in the definition of:
bain-marie, banks, barbecue, baster, blacken, boil down, broil, chafing dish, concentrate, cook out, deep-fry, filipino, french-fry, frittata, griddle, grumbling, hibachi, let alone, mallon, mary mallon, north island, oven broil, plank, preserver, reduce, roaster, seasoner, short-order, sir joseph banks, south island, steamer, take out, typhoid mary, unthawed

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