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the art or style of preparing food (as in a specified region)
- a TV show that teaches viewers the basics of French cooking
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cooking
verb
present participle of cook
Synonyms & Antonyms of cooking (Entry 2 of 2)
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
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2
to take place
- wondered what was cooking when several police cars pulled up to their neighbor's house
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- befalling,
- being,
- betiding,
- chancing,
- coming,
- coming about,
- coming down,
- coming off,
- doing,
- going down
- [slang],
- going on,
- happening,
- happing,
- occurring,
- passing,
- transpiring
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“Cooking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cooking. Accessed 5 Mar. 2021.
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The first known use of cooking was circa 1813
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