Meaning

19 senses
  1. (ambitransitive)To prepare food for eating, typically by heating it, combining it with other ingredients, seasoning it, preparing it for serving, etc.

    I'm cooking bangers and mash.

    He's in the kitchen, cooking.

    kochen, garen

    гото́витьgotóvitʹ, пригото́витьprigotóvitʹ, вари́тьvarítʹ

    готува́тиhotuváty, кухова́ритиkuxováryty, вари́тиvarýty

  2. (specifically, transitive)To apply heat to food in the course of preparing it, particularly in a way that transforms it rather than simply making it warmer.

  3. (intransitive)To undergo cooking.

    The dinner is cooking on the stove.

  4. (transitive)To smelt.

  5. (figuratively, intransitive)To be uncomfortably hot.

    Look at that poor dog shut up in that car on a day like today - it must be cooking in there.

    печьpečʹ, жаритьžaritʹ

    prepare a hot meal

  6. (slang, transitive)To kill, destroy, or otherwise render useless or inoperative through exposure to excessive heat or radiation.

  7. (slang, transitive)To execute by electric chair.

  8. (slang, transitive)To hold on to a grenade briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost immediately after being thrown.

    I always cook my frags, in case they try to grab one and throw it back.

  9. To concoct or prepare.

    My brother was locked up for cooking meth in his basement.

    Jesse, we need to cook.

    prepare for eating by applying heat

  10. (slang, transitive)To tamper with or alter; to cook up.

    tamper, with the purpose of deception

  11. (intransitive, slang)To play or improvise in an inspired and rhythmically exciting way. (From 1930s jive talk.)

    Watch this band: they cook!

    Crank up the Coltrane and start cooking!

  12. (intransitive, slang)To play music vigorously.

    On the Wagner piece, the orchestra was cooking!

Examples

3477 sentences
  1. Is your wife a good cook?

    Твоя дружина добре готує?

    ruТвоя жена хорошо готовит?

    deIst deine Frau eine gute Köchin?

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  2. This is how I cook fish.

    Ось як я готую рибу.

    ruВот как я готовлю рыбу.

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  3. You must be a good cook.

    Ти, мабуть, добрий кухар.

    ruТы, должно быть, хороший повар.

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  4. Her daughter is bad at cooking.

    Її дочка погано готує.

    ruЕё дочь плохо готовит.

    deIhre Tochter kann nicht kochen.

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  5. Her husband is an excellent cook.

    Її чоловік чудовий повар.

    ruЕё муж превосходный повар.

    deIhr Mann ist ein hervorragender Koch.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
to prepare food for eating:
Русский
By meaning 3
to prepare food for eating:
colloquial: to be uncomfortably hot:
to be cooked:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to prepare food for eating:

Origin

From Middle English coken, from the noun cook. In the slang sense of "proceed with some pl

From Middle English coken, from the noun cook. In the slang sense of "proceed with some plan", coined by American rapper from California Lil B in 2010 and popularized in viral tweets and TikToks in mid-2022.

Unknown; possibly related to chuck.

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Forms

cooks, cooking, cooked, cooked
Base formcook · to cook
3rd person singularcooks
Present participlecooking
Past simplecooked
Past participlecooked

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theycook
he, she, itcooks

Past simpleLesson

all personscooked

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave cooked
he, she, ithas cooked

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill cook

Phrasal verbs

5 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

54 synonyms

Word family

43 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • cook dinner
  • a good cook
  • good at cooking
  • how to cook
  • better better cook
  • good cook
  • better cook than
  • cook chinese food
  • cook dinner for
  • very good cook
  • to cook dinner
  • to cook chinese

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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