verb🔗ShareCocinarTo prepare (food) for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients."My mom cooked a delicious pasta dish for dinner. "Mi madre cocinó un delicioso plato de pasta para la cena.foodactionChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareCocinar, prepararTo prepare (unspecified) food for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients."My mom cooked pasta with tomato sauce for dinner. "Mi madre cocinó pasta con salsa de tomate para la cena.foodutensilChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareEstar cocinadoTo be cooked."The dinner is cooking on the stove."La cena se está cocinando en la estufa.foodactionChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareSofocarse, asarseTo be uncomfortably hot."Look at that poor dog shut up in that car on a day like today - it must be cooking in there."Mira a ese pobre perro encerrado en ese coche en un día como hoy: debe estar asándose allí dentro.weathersensationChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareEjecutar en la silla eléctricaTo execute by electric chair."The state cooked him for his heinous crimes. "El estado lo ejecutó en la silla eléctrica por sus crímenes atroces.lawgovernmentstateChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareSostener (una granada) brevemente después de encender la mecha, de modo que explote casi inmediatamente después de ser lanzadaTo hold onto (a grenade) briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost immediately after being thrown."The soldier cooked the grenade for three seconds before throwing it, ensuring it detonated quickly upon landing. "El soldado sostuvo la granada durante tres segundos antes de lanzarla, asegurándose de que detonara rápidamente al aterrizar.militaryweaponwaractionChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗SharePreparar, cocinarTo concoct or prepare."Sentence: The students cooked up a plan to surprise their teacher. "Los estudiantes prepararon un plan para sorprender a su profesor.foodactionChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareManipular, amañarTo tamper with or alter; to cook up."The accountant cooked the books to hide the company's losses. "El contable amañó los libros para ocultar las pérdidas de la empresa.actionwordChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareImprovisar, tocar con entusiasmoTo play or improvise in an inspired and rhythmically exciting way. (From 1930s jive talk.)"Crank up the Coltrane and start cooking!"¡Sube el volumen de Coltrane y empieza a tocar con entusiasmo!musiclanguageentertainmentChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTocar con energía, improvisarTo play music vigorously."On the Wagner piece, the orchestra was cooking!"¡En la pieza de Wagner, la orquesta estaba tocando con mucha energía!musicChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareCucularTo make the noise of the cuckoo."The cuckoo clock in the living room cooked every hour, much to the cat's annoyance. "El reloj de cuco en la sala de estar cuculaba cada hora, para gran molestia del gato.soundanimalbirdnatureChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareLanzar, arrojarTo throw."He cooked the crumpled paper into the wastebasket from across the room. "Él lanzó el papel arrugado a la papelera desde el otro lado de la habitación.actionsportChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
adjective🔗Sharecocinado, preparadoOf food, that has been prepared by cooking."We ate the cooked chicken for dinner. "Comimos el pollo cocinado para la cena.foodChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
adjective🔗ShareCorrompido, dañado(of an MP3 audio file) Corrupted by conversion through a text format, requiring uncooking to be properly listenable.""The downloaded MP3 was cooked; all I heard was static until I ran it through a special decoder to 'uncook' it." "El MP3 descargado estaba dañado; todo lo que escuché fue estática hasta que lo ejecuté a través de un decodificador especial para 'descorromperlo'.computingsoundmusictechnologyelectronicsinternetChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
adjective🔗ShareFabricado, falsificado(of accounting records, intelligence) Partially or wholly fabricated, falsified."The auditor discovered that the company's financial records were cooked, showing much higher profits than they actually earned. "El auditor descubrió que los registros financieros de la empresa estaban falsificados, mostrando ganancias mucho más altas de las que realmente obtuvieron.businessfinanceChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
adjective🔗ShareAgotado, exhaustoDone in, exhausted, pooped."After running the marathon, I was completely cooked. "Después de correr la maratón, estaba completamente exhausto.sensationChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
adjective🔗ShareAcabado, derrotado, desesperanzadoDone in, defeated, hopeless."After losing all his savings in the bad investment, he felt completely cooked. "Después de perder todos sus ahorros en la mala inversión, se sintió completamente desesperanzado.negativesituationChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
