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cook

n. someone who cooks food

Verbs (14)

cook

v. transform by heating; "The apothecary cooked the medicinal mixture in a big iron kettle"

cook

v. transform and make suitable for consumption by heating; "These potatoes have to cook for 20 minutes"

cook, fix, ready, make, prepare

v. prepare for eating by applying heat; "Cook me dinner, please"; "can you make me an omelette?"; "fix breakfast for the guests, please"

fudge, manipulate, fake, falsify, cook, wangle, misrepresent

v. tamper, with the purpose of deception; "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data"

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Fuzzynyms (127)

epicure, gourmet, gastronome, bon vivant, epicurean, foodie

n. a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink)

servant, retainer

n. a person working in the service of another (especially in the household)

assistant, helper, help, supporter

n. a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose; "my invaluable assistant"; "they hired additional help to finish the work"

attendant, attender, attendee, meeter

n. a person who is present and participates in a meeting; "he was a regular attender at department meetings"; "the gathering satisfied both organizers and attendees"

attendant, attender, tender

n. someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another

Butler, Samuel Butler

n. English poet (1612-1680)

chauffeur

n. a man paid to drive a privately owned car

maid, maidservant, housemaid, amah

n. a female domestic

steward

n. the ship's officer who is in charge of provisions and dining arrangements

steward, flight attendant

n. an attendant on an airplane

valet, valet de chambre, gentleman, gentleman's gentleman, man

n. a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer; "Jeeves was Bertie Wooster's man"

broil, oven broil

v. cook under a broiler; "broil fish"

saute

v. fry briefly over high heat; "saute the onions"

roll

v. take the shape of a roll or cylinder; "the carpet rolled out"; "Yarn rolls well"

warm

v. make warm or warmer; "The blanket will warm you"

crispen, toast, crisp

v. make brown and crisp by heating; "toast bread"; "crisp potatoes"

blend, flux, mix, conflate, commingle, immix, fuse, coalesce, meld, combine, merge

v. mix together different elements; "The colors blend well"

draft, outline

v. draw up an outline or sketch for something; "draft a speech"

blueprint, draft, draught

v. make a blueprint of

form, organize, organise

v. create (as an entity); "social groups form everywhere"; "They formed a company"

deceive, lead on, delude, cozen

v. be false to; be dishonest with

juggle, beguile, hoodwink

v. influence by slyness

victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, con

v. deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change"

dissemble, pretend, act

v. behave unnaturally or affectedly; "She's just acting"

perform

v. give a performance (of something); "Horowitz is performing at Carnegie Hall tonight"; "We performed a popular Gilbert and Sullivan opera"

forge, fake, counterfeit

v. make a copy of with the intent to deceive; "he faked the signature"; "they counterfeited dollar bills"; "She forged a Green Card"

raise, erect, rear, set up, put up

v. construct, build, or erect; "Raise a barn"

manufacture

v. produce naturally; "this gland manufactures a specific substance only"

reenact

v. enact or perform again; "They reenacted the battle of Princeton"

imitate

v. make a reproduction or copy of

abuse

v. use wrongly or improperly or excessively; "Her husband often abuses alcohol"; "while she was pregnant, she abused drugs"

sophisticate, doctor, doctor up

v. alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive; "Sophisticate rose water with geraniol"

falsify, distort, garble, warp

v. make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story

fashion, forge

v. make out of components (often in an improvising manner); "She fashioned a tent out of a sheet and a few sticks"

disguise, mask

v. make unrecognizable; "The herb masks the garlic taste"; "We disguised our faces before robbing the bank"

camouflage

v. disguise by camouflaging; exploit the natural surroundings to disguise something; "The troops camouflaged themselves before they went into enemy territory"

misrepresent, belie

v. represent falsely; "This statement misrepresents my intentions"

put, set, place, pose, position, lay

v. put into a certain place or abstract location; "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point"

propose, declare oneself, offer, pop the question

v. ask (someone) to marry you; "he popped the question on Sunday night"; "she proposed marriage to the man she had known for only two months"; "The old bachelor finally declared himself to the young woman"

submit, subject

v. refer for judgment or consideration; "The lawyers submitted the material to the court"

present, submit

v. hand over formally

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