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[ UK /kˈʊk/ ]
[ US /ˈkʊk/ ]
VERB
  1. transform by heating
    The apothecary cooked the medicinal mixture in a big iron kettle
  2. transform and make suitable for consumption by heating
    These potatoes have to cook for 20 minutes
  3. tamper, with the purpose of deception
    falsify the data
    cook the books
    Fudge the figures
  4. prepare for eating by applying heat
    fix breakfast for the guests, please
    can you make me an omelette?
    Cook me dinner, please
  5. prepare a hot meal
    My husband doesn't cook
NOUN
  1. someone who cooks food

How To Use cook In A Sentence

  • Here we did everything but lift up the old-fashioned coal-burning Aga cooker, which must have weighed a couple of tons at least. A CONVICTION OF GUILT
  • FK - pressure-cook would be the best way, but you could try boiling it with plenty of water so that it becomes really mushy, then blend it in a mixer to make a thick soup. or you could use a regular slow-cooker that you get in the US, except that it would be a bit time-consuming: Gujarati Dal (Healthy Lentil Soup)
  • The chops should be cooked over moderate heat to prevent excessive charring.
  • Then the pleasant little surprises of all kinds that we imagined; and the pleasant looks that greet us when we condescend to accept them; the patience that can translate our most unwarrantable "crossness", because there has been some trifling difficulty in obtaining the half of a star or the corner of a moon which it had pleased us to require, into "such a good sign of being really better"; and then our appetite (which the gods know is at that season singularly keen), how is it not tempted with unutterable dainties and friande morsels, all sorts of amateur cookery in our behalf, where Love himself has not disdained to turn the spit, and look into the stewpan! and all served up so gracefully on the small tray, covered with its delicate white damask cloth, arraying with more than mortal charms the moulds of crystal jelly and pure-looking blanc mange! Zoe: The History of Two Lives
  • Undercook the potatoes a little as they will continue cooking when removed from the water. Times, Sunday Times
  • (Not to be confused with what we call cookies)To serve Devon, or Cornwall clotted cream would desecrate a good southern biscuit (and be a waste of the cream really, I prefer it on saffron buns)a bit of plain cream, fresh butter, and cane syrup poured over a hot biscuit is ambrosia. Scones, Cream and Jam - a West Country cream tea
  • I knew what the lady had said was just a lie cooked up by my lazy, good-for-nothing parents to get me to come home.
  • One table had an older family, taking a break from cooking at home.
  • The wives showed themselves true to stereotype by forever cooking meals containing an abundance of chips and driving to shoe shops in Japanese cabriolets.
  • If you want the greatest nutritional value from your corn, how should you eat it: raw, quickly steamed or thoroughly cooked?
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