bake
(transitive, or, intransitive, or, ditransitive, with person as subject) To cook (something) in an oven (for someone).
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Realistically, that won't happen unless it was a 1 or 2 boss raid, at least on WoW's side. Although, canonically, they could bake it into the Infinite/Bronze Dragonflight's experimental timelines. XIV can just claim…
i used to bake it because it took me a long time to get over a phobia of frying pans but now i just use a frying pan
I'm a girl who loves to bake 😋 cinnamon apple empanadas to sweeten the day!
*yaaaawwwwn* alright, alright, let's shake and bake! It's Taco Tuesday!!!!! It's our arbitrarily chosen free day! That we have plans on too!
🎨 Toolbag Artist Highlight - Anya by Leticia Gillet Find more of Leticia’s work on Artstation: www.artstation.com/leticiarg 👉 Tag your art with #madewithMarmoset for a chance to be featured. Bake, texture, and…
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(transitive, or, intransitive, or, ditransitive, with person as subject) To cook (something) in an oven (for someone).
I baked a delicious cherry pie.
“Realistically, that won't happen unless it was a 1 or 2 boss raid, at least on WoW's side. Although, canonically, they could bake it into the Infinite/Bronze Dragonflight's experimental timelines. XIV can just claim a Minstrel's ballad kinda thing. So it could be a 1 boss trial.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“i used to bake it because it took me a long time to get over a phobia of frying pans but now i just use a frying pan”
— Bluesky· May 2026“I'm a girl who loves to bake 😋 cinnamon apple empanadas to sweeten the day!”
— Bluesky· May 2026“YES! I'm 100% with you. Food = love. Feeding your people = love. It is a joy and a pleasure to cook and/or bake for people that you care about.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Bake Woody Cotija Cheese And Smooth Romano Cheese”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(intransitive) To be warmed to drying and hardening.
He baked her a cake.
“*yaaaawwwwn* alright, alright, let's shake and bake! It's Taco Tuesday!!!!! It's our arbitrarily chosen free day! That we have plans on too!”
— Bluesky· May 2026“🎨 Toolbag Artist Highlight - Anya by Leticia Gillet Find more of Leticia’s work on Artstation: www.artstation.com/leticiarg 👉 Tag your art with #madewithMarmoset for a chance to be featured. Bake, texture, and render your art in Toolbag: marmoset.co”
— Bluesky· May 2026“The series has proven popular abroad; in the United States and Canada, where "Bake-Off" is a trademark owned by Pillsbury, it airs as The Great British Baking Show.”
“A bakery (also known as a bakehouse, baker's shop or bake shop) is an establishment that produces and sells flour-based baked goods made in an oven such as bread, cookies, cakes, doughnuts, pizzas, bagels, pastries, and pies.”
“On 2 September 2025 it was announced that The Great British Bake Off has been renewed for its seventeenth series in 2026.”
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(intransitive, with baked thing as subject) To be cooked in an oven.
"bake" means to be cooked in an oven. It is one of many casual words teens pick up from friends, social media, music or sport, and on its own it carries no particular warning. If you hear your teen use it, it is fair to ask what they mean by it in their friend group, since meanings drift quickly. Asking out of curiosity rather than alarm tends to keep the conversation open and useful.
"bake" is informal English meaning to be cooked in an oven. It is used widely across English varieties. A more formal or neutral equivalent would be something like "to be cooked in an oven" expressed in standard vocabulary. A common mistake is to assume "bake" can replace its standard equivalent in every register; keep it for spoken or casual situations and use the formal form in writing. If you are a B2 or C1 learner, it is useful to recognise this word when you hear or read it, but think carefully about whether the situation really calls for it before using it yourself.
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