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Cooked   /kʊkt/   Listen
Cooked

adjective
1.
Having been prepared for eating by the application of heat.



Cook

verb
(past & past part. cooked; pres. part. cooking)
1.
Prepare a hot meal.
2.
Prepare for eating by applying heat.  Synonyms: fix, make, prepare, ready.  "Can you make me an omelette?" , "Fix breakfast for the guests, please"
3.
Transform and make suitable for consumption by heating.
4.
Tamper, with the purpose of deception.  Synonyms: fake, falsify, fudge, manipulate, misrepresent, wangle.  "Cook the books" , "Falsify the data"
5.
Transform by heating.



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"Cooked" Quotes from Famous Books



... infer that they roamed over the grassy steppes with their cattle, making long halts to raise crops of grain. They had tamed most of the domestic animals; were acquainted with iron; understood the arts of weaving and sewing; wore clothes, and ate cooked food. They lived the hardy life of the comparatively temperate zone; and the feeling of cold seems to be one of the earliest common remembrances of the eastern and the ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 1 • Various

... white-bearded and affable elder, used to entertaining strangers. He dragged out a string bedstead for the lama, set warm cooked food before him, prepared him a pipe, and, the evening ceremonies being finished in the village temple, sent for the ...
— Kim • Rudyard Kipling

... gone by, the dust was washed away, the men had drunk their fill. From the haversacks they took the remnant of the food cooked that morning. The biscuit and the bacon tasted very good; not enough of either, it was true, but still something. The road above the river rose steeply, for here was the Blue Ridge, lofty and dark, rude with rock, and shaggy with ...
— The Long Roll • Mary Johnston

... slipped, with a shrug of her rosy shoulders, to return presently, carrying a tray covered with a white cloth, whereon were half a dozen glittering covers whence came most fragrant odours of cooked things. ...
— Gulliver of Mars • Edwin L. Arnold

... butter, constitutes our breakfast and tea; there is oatmeal porridge and cheap molasses at breakfast, but I could not eat that, it would be salts and senna for me. At noon we have plenty of meat and vegetables, indifferently cooked, but we don't require food suitable for men working out of doors. We need something to tempt the appetite ...
— Diary Written in the Provincial Lunatic Asylum • Mary Huestis Pengilly


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