bake

 
Pronunciation: /beɪk/

verb

[with object]
  • 1cook (food) by dry heat without direct exposure to a flame, typically in an oven: they bake their own bread and cakes
  • [no object] (of food) be cooked by baking: the bread was baking on hot stones
  • 2(of the sun or other agency) subject (something) to dry heat, especially so as to harden it: the soil in the desert is baked dry by the fierce heat of the sun
  • [no object] informal be or become extremely hot in prolonged sun or hot weather: the city was baking in a heatwave

noun

[with modifier]
  • a dish consisting of a mixture of ingredients cooked in an oven: a vegetable bake
  • [with modifier] North American a social gathering at which baked food of a specified kind is eaten: lobster bakes

Origin:

Old English bacan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch bakken and German backen