cake
verb/keɪk/
/keɪk/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they cake | /keɪk/ /keɪk/ |
| he / she / it cakes | /keɪks/ /keɪks/ |
| past simple caked | /keɪkt/ /keɪkt/ |
| past participle caked | /keɪkt/ /keɪkt/ |
| -ing form caking | /ˈkeɪkɪŋ/ /ˈkeɪkɪŋ/ |
- [transitive, usually passive] to cover something with a thick layer of something soft that becomes hard when it dries
- be caked with something Her shoes were caked with mud.
- When he ran onstage, his face was caked with make-up.
- be caked in something The cloth was caked in her blood.
- [intransitive] if a substance cakes, it becomes hard when it dries
Word OriginMiddle English (denoting a small flat bread roll): of Scandinavian origin; related to Swedish kaka and Danish kage.
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