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cook

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of cook

a person who prepares food by some manner of heating
  • the hearty meals prepared by the cook at summer camp
Synonyms of cook

chef, cooker, culinarian
Words Related to cook

baker, pâtissier (or patissier)

barbecuer, griller

cook

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of cook

1 to change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning of
  • it turns out the pharmaceutical researcher had cooked her data
Synonyms of cook

bend, color, distort, falsify, fudge, garble, misinterpret, misrelate, misrepresent, misstate, pervert, slant, twist, warp
Words Related to cook

misdescribe, misspeak, mistranslate

belie, camouflage, disguise, dissemble, gloss (over), mask, veil, whitewash

bowdlerize, censor

complicate, confound, confuse, mistake, mix (up)

mystify, obscure

equivocate, fib, lie, palter, prevaricate
Near Antonyms of cook

clarify, clear (up), explain, illuminate, illustrate, interpret, spell out

decipher
2 to take place
  • wondered what was cooking when several police cars pulled up to their neighbor's house
Synonyms of cook

be, befall, betide, chance, come, come about, come down, come off, do, go down [slang], go on, hap, happen, occur, pass, transpire
Words Related to cook

break, develop, rise, shape (up)

arise, come up, crop (up), materialize, spring (up)

intervene

fall out, follow, result, turn out

go off, proceed
Phrases Synonymous with cook

come to pass

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