the hearty meals prepared by the cook at summer camp
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Cook the onions over low heat.
She cooked a great meal.
The fish was cooked in a white wine sauce.
Carrots can be cooked, but they are often eaten raw.
We're too busy to cook at home.
He enjoys cooking on the weekends.
The rice is still cooking, but it will be ready in 10 minutes.
There's something cooking, but he won't say what.
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14th century
bend, color, distort, falsify, fudge, garble, misinterpret, misrelate, misrepresent, misstate, pervert, slant, twist, warp;
misdescribe, misspeak, mistranslate;
belie, camouflage, disguise, dissemble, gloss (over), mask, veil, whitewash;
complicate, confound, confuse, mistake, mix (up);
equivocate, fib, lie, palter, prevaricate;
: someone who prepares and cooks food for eating at home, in a restaurant, etc.
: to prepare (food) for eating especially by using heat
: to go through the process of being cooked
: to happen or take place
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