cook out
To cook a group meal outside as a family, workplace or other social unitTo cook a group meal outside as a family, workplace or other social unit.
» A good cook doesn't throw out yesterday's soup.
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2 senses(intransitive)To cook a group meal outside as a family, workplace or other social unit.
(transitive)To cook (something) sufficiently.
You've got to cook out the spices to get rid of the bitterness.
cook outdoors on a barbecue grill
Examples
5 sentencesA good cook doesn't throw out yesterday's soup.
Dmitri and his friends were having a cook-out in the clearing.
Someone's cooking out.
How do you make holy water? You cook the hell out of it.
For centuries, friends and family chanted songs, youngsters danced, and cooks dished out traditional delicacies when Indian wedding festivities got under way.
Forms
cooks out, cooking out, cooked out, cooked out| Base form | cook out · to cook out |
|---|---|
| 3rd person singular | cooks out |
| Present participle | cooking out |
| Past simple | cooked out |
| Past participle | cooked out |
irregular
Phrasal verbs
5 phrasal verbs- cook upскладати, компенсуватиTo prepare (food or chemical substances) by cooking or heating.
- cook offTo eliminate by cooking.
- cook outTo cook a group meal outside as a family, workplace or other social unit.
- cook backTo recook a drug (especially crack cocaine) in an aqueous solution (water) in order to isolate and concentrate the active ingredients, thereby increasing its potency.
- cook throughTo cook completely, to cook to the core.
Synonyms
2 synonyms- cook outdoors on a barbecue grill:barbequebarbecue
Word family
1 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Phrasal verbs: introduction — Because it is a phrasal verb
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.