Synonyms for cook
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1. cooknoun

   someone who cooks food

2. Cook, James Cook, Captain Cook, Captain James Cookverb

   English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779)

3. cookverb

   prepare a hot meal

   "My husband doesn't cook"

   Synonyms:
   fix, misrepresent, wangle, manipulate, make, ready, falsify, fudge, fake, prepare

4. cook, fix, ready, make, prepareverb

   prepare for eating by applying heat

   "Cook me dinner, please"; "can you make me an omelette?"; "fix breakfast for the guests, please"

   Synonyms:
   wee-wee, take, hit, bring in, desexualise, restore, construct, doctor, draw, stool, have, lay down, mend, piddle, hold, desex, piss, constitute, fudge, do, reach, earn, stimulate, get to, shit, fix, pay back, posit, name, falsify, fixate, define, make water, progress to, create, crap, take a shit, pretend, gain, ready, defecate, establish, pee, realize, train, make up, specify, bushel, develop, sterilise, give, unsex, attain, relieve oneself, pull in, set, wee, induce, form, spend a penny, touch on, make, gear up, limit, fake, prepare, micturate, deposit, furbish up, take in, machinate, organise, repair, score, get, secure, build, situate, make believe, throw, pass water, arrive at, pee-pee, sterilize, set up, ca-ca, devise, misrepresent, determine, puddle, take a crap, clear, produce, nominate, groom, educate, manipulate, organize, take a leak, fasten, pay off, desexualize, cause, urinate, get up, wangle, work, realise, seduce

5. cookverb

   transform and make suitable for consumption by heating

   "These potatoes have to cook for 20 minutes"

   Synonyms:
   fix, misrepresent, wangle, manipulate, make, ready, falsify, fudge, fake, prepare

6. fudge, manipulate, fake, falsify, cook, wangle, misrepresentverb

   tamper, with the purpose of deception

   "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data"

   Synonyms:
   warp, belie, circumvent, evade, ready, prepare, sidestep, pull wires, fix, forge, manage, make, parry, dodge, finagle, fake, duck, alter, control, hedge, bullshit, put off, manipulate, bull, talk through one's hat, falsify, distort, garble, counterfeit, pull strings, elude, interpolate, wangle, keep in line, fudge, misrepresent, rig, skirt

7. cookverb

   transform by heating

   "The apothecary cooked the medicinal mixture in a big iron kettle"

   Synonyms:
   fix, misrepresent, wangle, manipulate, make, ready, falsify, fudge, fake, prepare

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1. • Change
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   • Cookery
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   • Skilled Worker

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. cookverb

   Synonyms:
   prepare (food) by heat

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1. cooknoun

   Synonyms:
   chef (chief cook)

2. cookverb

   Synonyms:
   stew, seethe, gratinate, tamper with, garble, falsify

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1. List of paraphrases for "cook":

   cuisinier, cooking, kitchen, bake, stove, kitchens, chef, cock, baking, cooke, kok, cuisine, cooker, cordy

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How to use cook in a sentence?

1. Maneo Motsamai:

   I boil water to cook mealie meal (maize porridge) and the power goes. I can’t eat, it’s a waste. I can’t cope like that.

2. Meghan Markle:

   I immediately felt connected to this community kitchen; it is a place for women to laugh, grieve, cry and cook together. Melding cultural identities under a shared roof, it creates space to feel a sense of normalcy — in its simplest form, [it's about] the universal need to connect, nurture, and commune through food, through crisis or joy — something we can all relate to, through this charitable endeavor, the proceeds will allow the kitchen to thrive and keep the global spirit of community alive.

3. Kevin Gillespie:

   Why does a server decide when a guest is ready to eat and when a cook is ready to prepare food? That seems real stupid, the only true sense of time that exists in food is the time it takes for something to cook.

4. Benny Dacy:

   He was a mama’s boy, if we were having dinner and he didn’t like the food, his mother would get up in the middle of the meal to cook him something special, and this was at a time when we didn’t have a lot of money.

5. Mary Jo Kreitzer:

   To get people to change what they eat, we need to provide them with more access to healthy foods and information on how to cook and prepare healthy foods.