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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bake \Bake\ (b[=a]k), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Baked} (b[=a]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Baking}.] [AS. bacan; akin to D. bakken, OHG. bacchan, G. backen, Icel. & Sw. baka, Dan. bage, Gr. fw'gein to roast.]
1. To prepare, as food, by cooking in a dry heat, either in an oven or under coals, or on heated stone or metal; as, to bake bread, meat, apples.
Note: Baking is the term usually applied to that method of cooking which exhausts the moisture in food more than roasting or broiling; but the distinction of meaning between roasting and baking is not always observed.
2. To dry or harden (anything) by subjecting to heat, as, to bake bricks; the sun bakes the ground.
3. To harden by cold.
The earth . . . is baked with frost. --Shak.
They bake their sides upon the cold, hard stone. --Spenser.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
baked \baked\ (b[=a]kt), adjective 2. dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight.
Syn: adust, parched, scorched, sunbaked. [WordNet 1.5]
2. cooked with dry heat in an oven; -- of bread and pastries. [WordNet 1.5]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
baked
adjective
1: dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight; "a vast desert all adust"; "land lying baked in the heat"; "parched soil"; "the earth was scorched and bare"; "sunbaked salt flats" [syn: {adust}, {parched}, {scorched}, {sunbaked}]
2: (of bread and pastries) cooked by dry heat (as in an oven); "baked goods"
3: hardened by subjecting to intense heat; "baked bricks"; "burned bricks" [syn: {burned}, {burnt}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
47 Moby Thesaurus words for "baked": adust, boiled, braised, broiled, browned, burnt, coddled, cooked, corky, curried, dehydrated, desiccated, deviled, dried, dried-up, evaporated, exsiccated, fired, fricasseed, fried, grilled, heated, mummified, oven-baked, pan-broiled, parboiled, parched, poached, roast, roasted, sauteed, scalloped, scorched, sear, seared, sere, shirred, shriveled, steamed, stewed, sun-dried, sunbaked, toasted, weazened, wind-dried, withered, wizened
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