baked; baking; bakes
1
: to cook by dry heat especially in an oven
bake a cake
bake bread
baked potatoes
baking [=roasting] a chicken
2
: to dry or harden by subjecting to heat
1
: to prepare food by baking it
a cook who enjoys baking
2
: to become baked
a loaf of bread baking in the oven
3
: to be or become extremely hot
sidewalks baking in the sun
1
: the act or process of baking
2
: a social gathering at which a baked food is served
Examples of bake in a Sentence
Verb
She wrapped the fish in foil and baked it for 15 minutes.
How long has the cake been baking?
They baked the bricks in the sun.
The streets were baking in the afternoon heat.
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Erica Jackson Curran, Parents, 11 Jan. 2026
Turn squash cut side down and bake 30 to 40 minutes or until squash gives a little when pressed and shell begins to brown.
—C.w. Cameron, AJC.com, 11 Jan. 2026
Julia Avant, CBS News, 6 Jan. 2026
Hosted by Saturday Night Live’s Mikey Day, this bake-off game show is fun to play along with as celebrity judges try to guess which objects are regular objects, and which are actually made of cake.
—Will Harris, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Jan. 2026
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Verb
Try making real hot cocoa after a brisk walk around the block, or bake a batch of cookies to share with your neighbors.
—Noun
Placing the cake in the store's front window wasn't the hardest part about this ultimate bake-off.
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“Bake.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bake. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
Kids Definition
bake
1 of 2 verb
baked; baking
1
: to cook or become cooked by dry heat especially in an oven
2
: to dry or harden by heat
bake bricks
3
: to be or become very hot
a sidewalk baking in the sun
baker
noun
bake
2 of 2 noun1
: the act or process of baking
2
: a social gathering at which a baked food is served
especially
: clambake
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