caked

verb

past tense of cake
as in smeared
to cover with a hardened layer shoes caked with dried mud

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Recent Examples of caked Degrease The Kitchen If frying bacon or green tomatoes has left your range hood and cooktop with caked on grease, Windex can cut through it. — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 19 June 2026 Clean Off the Deck A mower deck caked with clippings attracts more clippings. — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 June 2026 My sneakers caked tall with snow. — Literary Hub, 15 May 2026 Also, a magenta bed once owned by a Vegas drag queen that couldn’t be restored in time for the show (too much hair spray caked on the headboard). — Olivia Kan-Sperling, Artforum, 2 May 2026 Try Audible for free Hands caked with mud, fingertips diced by a thousand tiny cuts, and my wheels were spinning again. — CBS News, 1 May 2026 If your gardening tools have rust or caked-on dirt from their last use, vinegar can help. — Samantha Johnson, Martha Stewart, 29 Apr. 2026 Green is slightly stronger for cleaning lightly caked grime, while yellow is strong enough to strip off paint. — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 17 Apr. 2026 The interior gauges, caked in 50 years of dust, are beautiful, with a peculiar toggle switch in the center of the dashboard that looks like it was taken from an RAF Spitfire fighter plane. — Jesus R. Garcia, Houston Chronicle, 5 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for caked
  1. smeared
  2. crusted
  3. encrusted
  4. coated
  5. covered
Verb
  • The restaurant sources its birotes from Duran’s to make the open-face, bean and cheese-smeared breakfast sandwiches popular throughout Mexico.
    — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
  • By the end of the debate, about 150 men dressed in Indigenous costumes, their faces smeared with soot, stormed to a nearby wharf and dumped a literal boatload of tea into the water.
    — Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 26 June 2026
Definition of smeared
Verb
  • Black-fly bites from the week before had crusted near our hairlines and circled our wrists.
    — John Todd, Outdoor Life, 9 July 2026
  • Such hospitality was reserved for a narrow category of humanity, resembling as closely as possible those local barons whose surnames crusted the stones of local cemeteries.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 Apr. 2026
Definition of crusted
Verb
  • The 1500 feet-long sculpture, made of 6000 tons of black basalt rock and earth, juts out of the basin and is encrusted with white salt, having been altered over the years by the salty pink water that used to flow there.
    — Lara Johnson-Wheeler, Vogue, 3 July 2026
  • Eliza decked herself in emeralds, while Amelia modeled a set encrusted with sapphires.
    — Hannah Malach, InStyle, 1 July 2026
Definition of encrusted
Verb
  • The resulting design starts with aluminum cabinetry powder-coated in buyer's color selection and embellished with bamboo trim throughout.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 8 July 2026
  • Toss together okra and cornmeal in a large bowl until okra is evenly coated.
    — Jasmine Smith, Southern Living, 7 July 2026
Definition of coated
Verb
  • Additionally, our commerce writers and editors have previously covered a vast array of jeans styles, including the best butt-lifting jeans and best drawstring jeans.
    — Jessie Quinn, StyleCaster, 9 July 2026
  • Wired journalists Noah Shachtman and Maddy Varner combed through Madison Square Garden documents that were published last month by the criminal hacker collective ShinyHunters and first covered by 404 Media.
    — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 9 July 2026
Definition of covered

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