单词 | baked |
释义 | baked (once / 800 pages) adj Something that's baked is cooked in a hot oven. Baked potatoes are especially delicious when they're covered in melted butter. If you agree to supply baked goods for a school bake sale, it means you've pledged to spend some time mixing batter and dough and then baking the results in an oven. You could eat baked fish for dinner and follow it up with a freshly baked apple pie for dessert. The adjective baked comes from the verb bake, from the Old English root word bacan, "to bake." WORD FAMILYbake: baked, baker, bakery, bakes, baking+/baker: bakers/bakery: bakeries/baking: bakings USAGE EXAMPLESThe intense heat baked the soil, leaving it slick and unable to absorb moisture from a huge thunderstorm that followed two months later. BBC(Dec 29, 2016) If you’ve exhausted your prime rib and double baked potato leftovers, maybe opt for something a little lighter tonight. Los Angeles Times(Dec 28, 2016) As a teenager, Fisher once threw milk in Reynolds’s lap; Reynolds responded by putting baked beans in Fisher’s hair. The Guardian(Dec 27, 2016) 1adj (bread and pastries) cooked by dry heat (as in an oven) baked goods Syn cooked having been prepared for eating by the application of heat 2adj dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight land lying baked in the heat Syn adust, parched, scorched, sunbaked dry free from liquid or moisture; lacking natural or normal moisture or depleted of water; or no longer wet |
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