COOKING Synonyms: 84 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

Definition of cooking

as in cuisine

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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verb

present participle of cook

as in misrepresenting

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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as in happening

to take place wondered what was cooking when several police cars pulled up to their neighbor's house

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Recent Examples of cooking

Noun

Sticking is typically a consequence of improper cooking technique, and a nonstick surface of any kind can only do so much to prevent it. — Wilder Davies, Bon Appetit Magazine, 17 Sep. 2026 Adobo and Sazón are at the heart of Latin-Caribbean cooking, bringing bold, layered flavor to meats, fish, rice, beans, vegetables and beyond. — ABC News, 16 Sep. 2026

Verb

Duque recommends snapping or cutting off the sprouts and removing any nearby wrinkly portions before cooking the sweet potato. — Lynn Andriani, Martha Stewart, 4 Sep. 2026 If your stay involves a special occasion, the Teppanyaki show-cooking experience makes for an unforgettable celebration. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for cooking

Recent Examples of Synonyms for cooking

Noun

Her menu, which changes weekly, is more a self-portrait than a representation of a specific cuisine.

— Leah Asmelash, CNN Money, 19 Sep. 2026
Café Roval, with a flowing backyard and a pond carved out of a 1923 water pump station, was higher-end, focused on Mediterranean cuisine.

— Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of cuisine

Verb

Settlement talks collapsed in late August after Bonta accused Paramount of leaking and misrepresenting their discussions.

— Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2026
At that public meeting, several parents said Adams should have been fired for misleading them and misrepresenting the condition of the Earl Warren ATP facilities.

— Marsha Sutton, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Sep. 2026

Definition of misrepresenting

Verb

With competitive midterm races happening in nearly all of the early states, potential Democratic presidential candidates are already on the trail with purple-district incumbents and candidates.

— Nicholas Wu, semafor.com, 16 Sep. 2026
However, when one of those controls is compromised, resilience depends on having independent means of understanding what is actually happening across the environment.

— Shane Buckley, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of happening

Verb

But the current state of geopolitics appears to be distorting what being open means.

— Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 19 Aug. 2026
China’s aircraft engineers have warned that artificial intelligence could feed false data into military intelligence, potentially distorting the design and operation of advanced weapons.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of distorting

Verb

CreativeFuture, the nonprofit advocating for creative copyright protections, was doing their own work, as were representatives from the TV Academy.

— Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 17 Sep. 2026
So the idea is that a particle has definite properties independent of what distant particles are doing.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of doing

Verb

Earlier in the year, the Yankees viewed Jones as a platoon bat, with nearly the entirety of his playing time coming against right-handers.

— Chris Kirschner, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2026
Large numbers of Canadian snowbirds typically flock to warm-weather locations in Florida, Arizona and California when temperatures drop at home, making the coming months a test of whether the grassroots boycott will extend into another winter.

— Rio Yamat, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of coming

Verb

Rather than filtering contaminants out and concentrating them into waste, this method uses ozone gas and naturally occurring microbes to break contaminants down instead of just isolating them.

— Piper Heath, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2026
As for the sextile aspect, this allows room for our personal instincts to merge with the change occurring in the collective.

— Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of occurring

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