To prepare food for eating, typically by heating it, combining it with other ingredients, seasoning it, preparing it for serving, etc.ambitransitive
To apply heat to food in the course of preparing it, particularly in a way that transforms it rather than simply making it warmer.specifically, transitive
To undergo cooking.intransitive
To smelt.transitive
To be uncomfortably hot.figuratively, intransitive
To kill, destroy, or otherwise render useless or inoperative through exposure to excessive heat or radiation.slang, transitive
To execute by electric chair.slang, transitive
To hold on to a grenade briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost immediately after being thrown.slang, transitive
To concoct or prepare.
To tamper with or alter; to cook up.slang, transitive
To play or improvise in an inspired and rhythmically exciting way. (From 1930s jive talk.)intransitive, slang
To play music vigorously.intransitive, slang
To proceed with some plan or course of action, or develop some train of thought towards its conclusion (whether this is advantageous, or comical, or digging into a hole).humorous, intransitive, slang
To proceed with some plan or course of action, or develop some train of thought towards its conclusion (whether this is advantageous, or comical, or digging into a hole).
To proceed with some advantageous course of action; (more generally) to be successful.humorous, intransitive, slang
To develop insane or fringe ideas.Australia, derogatory, humorous, intransitive, slang
To defeat or humiliate.slang, transitive
To cause to be cooked, i.e. to put in a hopeless situation.slang, transitive
Forms
he/she/it
cooks
-ing form
cooking
past
cooked
past participle
cooked
Example sentences2080 results
It's so hot that you could cook an egg on the hood of a car.
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