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cooked

/kʊkt/

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verb

To prepare (food) for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.

Examples :

"My mom cooked a delicious pasta dish for dinner. "

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To prepare (unspecified) food for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.

Examples :

"My mom cooked pasta with tomato sauce for dinner. "

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To be cooked.

Examples :

"The dinner is cooking on the stove."

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To be uncomfortably hot.

Examples :

"Look at that poor dog shut up in that car on a day like today - it must be cooking in there."

weather sensation

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To execute by electric chair.

Examples :

"The state cooked him for his heinous crimes. "

law government state

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To hold onto (a grenade) briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost immediately after being thrown.

Examples :

"The soldier cooked the grenade for three seconds before throwing it, ensuring it detonated quickly upon landing. "

military weapon war action

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To concoct or prepare.

Examples :

"Sentence: The students cooked up a plan to surprise their teacher. "

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To tamper with or alter; to cook up.

Examples :

"The accountant cooked the books to hide the company's losses. "

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To play or improvise in an inspired and rhythmically exciting way. (From 1930s jive talk.)

Examples :

"Crank up the Coltrane and start cooking!"

music language entertainment

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To play music vigorously.

Examples :

"On the Wagner piece, the orchestra was cooking!"

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To make the noise of the cuckoo.

Examples :

"The cuckoo clock in the living room cooked every hour, much to the cat's annoyance. "

sound animal bird nature

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verb

Examples :

"He cooked the crumpled paper into the wastebasket from across the room. "

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adjective

Of food, that has been prepared by cooking.

Examples :

"We ate the cooked chicken for dinner. "

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(of an MP3 audio file) Corrupted by conversion through a text format, requiring uncooking to be properly listenable.

Examples :

""The downloaded MP3 was cooked; all I heard was static until I ran it through a special decoder to 'uncook' it." "

computing sound music technology electronics internet

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adjective

(of accounting records, intelligence) Partially or wholly fabricated, falsified.

Examples :

"The auditor discovered that the company's financial records were cooked, showing much higher profits than they actually earned. "

business finance

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adjective

Done in, exhausted, pooped.

Examples :

"After running the marathon, I was completely cooked. "

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Done in, defeated, hopeless.

Examples :

"After losing all his savings in the bad investment, he felt completely cooked. "

negative situation