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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Cook \Cook\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cooked}; p. pr & vb n. {Cooking}.] 1. To prepare, as food, by boiling, roasting, baking, broiling, etc.; to make suitable for eating, by the agency of fire or heat. 2. To concoct or prepare; hence to tamper with or alter; to garble; -- often with up as to cook up a story; to cook an account. [Colloq.] They all of them receive the same advices from abroad, and very often in the same words but their way of cooking it is so different. --Addison. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: cooking n 1: the practice or manner of preparing food or the food so prepared [syn: {cookery}, {cuisine}, {culinary art}] 2: the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat [syn: {cookery}]
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