cook

Meanings

• someone who cooks food
• English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779)
• prepare a hot meal
  • "My husband doesn't cook"
• prepare for eating by applying heat
  • "Cook me dinner, please"
• transform and make suitable for consumption by heating
  • "These potatoes have to cook for 20 minutes"
• tamper, with the purpose of deception
  • "cook the books"
• transform by heating
  • "The apothecary cooked the medicinal mixture in a big iron kettle"

Synonyms

Captain Cook, Captain James Cook, fake, falsify, fix, fudge, James Cook, make, manipulate, misrepresent, prepare, ready, wangle