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Bake

To prepare, as food, by cooking in a dry heat, either in an oven or under coals, or on heated stone or metal; as, to bake bread, meat, apples.

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Broader term 4

Be 76% connected

To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have ex/stence.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Cook 76% connected

To make the noise of the cuckoo.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Exist 76% connected

To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Heat 76% connected

A force in nature which is recognized in various effects, but especially in the phenomena of fusion and evaporation, and which, as manifested in fire…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Manner of action 2

Fire 76% connected

The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of bodies; combustion; state of ignition.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Shirr 76% connected

A series of close parallel runnings which are drawn up so as to make the material between them set full by gatherings; -- called also shirring, and g…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Derivationally related 4

Baker 74% connected

One whose business it is to bake bread, biscuit, etc.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Baker 74% connected

One whose business it is to bake bread, biscuit, etc.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Baking 74% connected

of Bake

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Baking 74% connected

of Bake

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Synonym 1

Broil 92% connected

A tumult; a noisy quarrel; a disturbance; a brawl; contention; discord, either between individuals or in the state.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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