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1. Prepare (food, a dish, or a meal) by mixing, combining, and heating the ingredients.
I told you I could cook
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2. (of food) be heated so that the state required for eating is reached.
while the rice is cooking, add the saffron to the stock
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3. Alter dishonestly; falsify.
When I heard that he had cooked his evidence, my first reaction was ‘how stupid’.
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4. (be cooked) Be in an inescapably bad situation.
if I can't talk to him I'm cooked
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5. (be cooking) Be happening or planned.
Evidently this has been cooking for several months, but the word recently leaked out, and a paper has been rushed to the online edition of Science.
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6. Perform or proceed vigorously or very well.
Ya boy Santana's back like cooked… well, you know the rest.
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Noun
1. A person who prepares and cooks food, especially as a job or in a specified way.
I'm a good cook
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Cook up
1. (cook something up, cook up something) Devise a clever or devious story, excuse, or plan.
I've had plenty of time to cook up an outlandish conspiracy theory
Cook down
1. (cook something down, cook down something) Heat food and cause it to thicken and reduce in volume.
cooking down the chutney can take up to 45 minutes
Origin
1. Old English cōc (noun), from popular Latin cocus, from Latin coquus.
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