bake

bake is a   Verb

Definition:

[1] To prepare, as food, by cooking in a dry heat, either in an oven or under coals, or on heated stone or metal; as, to bake bread, meat, apples.

[2] To dry or harden (anything) by subjecting to heat, as, to bake bricks; the sun bakes the ground.

[3] To harden by cold. The earth . . . is baked with frost. Shak. They bake their sides upon the cold, hard stone. Spenser.

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