cake

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural

cakes

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1)

cake

past (v2)

caked

past participle (v3)

caked

present participle

caking

3rd person singular

cakes

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.

   • On Monday afternoon, Ronya attends a birthday party and eats cake whenever cake is presented to her.

2. 2.A small mass of baked dough, especially a thin loaf from unleavened dough.

   • You left the cake in the oven too long.
   • My mother is making a cake for my father.

3. 3.A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake.

   • You left the cake in the oven too long.
   • My mother is making a cake for my father.

4. 4.A block of any various dense materials.

   • Cakes of rustling ice come rolling down the flood.

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

1. 1.Coat (something) with a crust of solid material.

   • His shoes are caked with mud.
   • You will remember that Stranger Things was initially conceived as a one-off, and its success forced the Duffer Brothers to cake on endless new lore to keep the engine running.

2. 2.Of blood or other liquid, to dry out and become hard.

   • Once we fell asleep, and, I think, must have slept for some hours, for, when we woke, our limbs were quite stiff, and the blood from our blows and scratches had caked, and was hard and dry upon our skin.

3. 3.To form into a cake, or mass.

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