baked
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Cooked by dry heat in an oven: Describes food, especially bread, pastries, or other items, that has been prepared by baking.
- Dried or hardened by heat or excessive sunlight: Describes something that has become very dry, parched, or hardened due to exposure to intense heat, often from the sun.
Examples of Usage
- Adjective:
- The bakery sells freshly baked bread every morning.
- We enjoyed warm baked apples for dessert.
- The baked clay of the desert floor was cracked and hard.
- His skin was baked from years of working in the sun.
Advanced Usage
- "Baked-in": Used to describe a characteristic, feature, or problem that is inherent, fundamental, or impossible to separate from something.
- The software has baked-in security features.
- There is a baked-in assumption in their argument.
Variants and Related Words
- Bake (verb): To cook food by dry heat, especially in an oven.
- She will bake a cake for the party.
- Baker (noun): A person whose trade is baking bread, cakes, etc.
- Bakery (noun): A place where bread and cakes are baked or sold.
Synonyms
- Oven-cooked: Cooked in an oven.
- Parched: Dried out by heat.
- Scorched: Burned or discolored by heat.
Related Phrasal Verbs/Phrases
- Bake off: To compete in a baking contest; also, to complete the final stage of baking.
- She decided to bake off the cookies for five more minutes.
- Ten chefs will bake off for the championship title.
Related Idioms
- Half-baked: Not fully thought out; poorly planned or conceived.
- The committee rejected his half-baked proposal.
- (To be) baked into the cake: Used to indicate that something is an intrinsic, unavoidable part of a situation.
- Some risk is just baked into the cake when you start a new business.
Adjective
- (bread and pastries) cooked by dry heat (as in an oven)
- baked goods
- dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight
- a vast desert all adust
- land lying baked in the heat
- parched soil
- the earth was scorched and bare
- sunbaked salt flats