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cooked

The correct spelling is cooked.

How to pronounce cooked

/kʊkt/
verb

IPA: /kʊkt/

Say it like: Coo-ked

The correct spelling is cooked. To prepare (food) for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients. For example: "I'm cooking bangers and mash."

Usage Examples

I'm cooking bangers and mash.

He's in the kitchen, cooking.

The dinner is cooking on the stove.

Meanings

verb

  1. 1.To prepare (food) for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.
  2. 2.To prepare (unspecified) food for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.
  3. 3.To be cooked.
  4. 4.To be uncomfortably hot.
  5. 5.To execute by electric chair.

adjective

  1. 1.Of food, that has been prepared by cooking.
  2. 2.(of an MP3 audio file) Corrupted by conversion through a text format, requiring uncooking to be properly listenable.
  3. 3.(of accounting records, intelligence) Partially or wholly fabricated, falsified.
  4. 4.Done in, exhausted, pooped.
  5. 5.Done in, defeated, hopeless.

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