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The Meaning of cook

  • (v. t.) To prepare, as food, by boiling, roasting, baking, broiling, etc.; to make suitable for eating, by the agency of fire or heat.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. i.) To prepare food for the table.
  • (v. i.) To make the noise of the cuckoo.
  • (v. t.) To throw.
  • (n.) One whose occupation is to prepare food for the table; one who dresses or cooks meat or vegetables for eating.
  • (n.) A fish, the European striped wrasse.

Synonyms

fix , misrepresent , wangle , manipulate , make , ready , falsify , fudge , fake , prepare , wee-wee , take , hit , bring in , desexualise , restore , construct , doctor , draw , stool , have , lay down , mend , piddle , hold , desex , piss , constitute , do , reach , earn , stimulate , get to , shit , pay back , posit , name , fixate , define , make water , progress to , create , crap , take a shit , pretend , gain , defecate , establish , pee , realize , train , make up , specify , bushel , develop , sterilise , give , unsex , attain , relieve oneself , pull in , set , wee , induce , form , spend a penny , touch on , gear up , limit , micturate , deposit , furbish up , take in , machinate , organise , repair , score , get , secure , build , situate , make believe , throw , pass water , arrive at , pee-pee , sterilize , set up , ca-ca , devise , determine , puddle , take a crap , clear , produce , nominate , groom , educate , organize , take a leak , fasten , pay off , desexualize , cause , urinate , get up , work , realise , seduce , warp , belie , circumvent , evade , sidestep , pull wires , forge , manage , parry , dodge , finagle , duck , alter , control , hedge , bullshit , put off , bull , talk through one's hat , distort , garble , counterfeit , pull strings , elude , interpolate , keep in line , rig , skirt

Homophones

cooke

Rhymes

bankbook , benbrook , book , brook , brooke , checkbook , chinook , chook , cookbook , cooke , create-a-book , crook , crooke , decook , donnybrook , flook , forsook , gobbledygook , gook , guidebook , handbook , holbrook , hook , hooke , hornbook , inglenook , jokebook , kirkuk , logbook , look , matchbook , mccook , mistook , mook , nook , notebook , outlook , overbook , overcook , overlook , overtook , passbook , pocketbook , precook , rebook , rook , rooke , rulebook , schnook , schook , schoolbook , scrapbook , shnook , shook , sketchbook , snook , storybook , stroock , strook , subnotebook , textbook , took , tooke , undercook , undertook , unhook , vanhook , westbrook , yearbook , zook