Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb bake

4 senses of bake

Sense 1
bake -- (cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven; "bake the potatoes")
       => cook -- (transform and make suitable for consumption by heating; "These potatoes have to cook for 20 minutes")

Sense 2
bake -- (prepare with dry heat in an oven; "bake a cake")
       => create from raw material, create from raw stuff -- (make from scratch)

Sense 3
broil, bake -- (heat by a natural force; "The sun broils the valley in the summer")
       => heat, heat up -- (make hot or hotter; "the sun heats the oceans"; "heat the water on the stove")

Sense 4
bake, broil -- (be very hot, due to hot weather or exposure to the sun; "The town was broiling in the sun"; "the tourists were baking in the heat")
       => be -- (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun); "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer")