1. (

• bake

) cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven; "bake the potatoes" ;

2. (

• bake

) prepare with dry heat in an oven; "bake a cake" ;

3. (

• broil ,
• bake ,

) heat by a natural force; "The sun broils the valley in the summer" ;

4. (

• bake ,
• broil

) be very hot, due to hot weather or exposure to the sun; "The town was broiling in the sun"; "the tourists were baking in the heat" ;

1. (

• adust ,
• baked ,
• parched ,
• scorched ,
• sunbaked

) dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight; "a vast desert all adust"; "land lying baked in the heat"; "parched soil"; "the earth was scorched and bare"; "sunbaked salt flats" ;

2. (

• baked

) (bread and pastries) cooked by dry heat (as in an oven); "baked goods" ;