# baked

Pronunciation: say "BAYKT" /beɪkt/

## Adjective

1. Cooked in an oven by dry, surrounding heat rather than by frying or boiling.
   - Simple: Cooked in an oven with dry heat, not fried or boiled.
   - _The baked salmon flaked apart at the touch of a fork._
   - _A platter of baked vegetables sat at the center of the table._
3. Intoxicated: drunk on alcohol, or high or stoned from drugs. *(slang)*
   - Simple: Very drunk or high on drugs.
   - _She showed up to the late showing already baked._
   - _They got baked at the festival and forgot where they parked the car._
4. Of a person, mentally unbalanced; crazy or insane. *(slang)*
   - Simple: Crazy, or acting in a wild and senseless way.
   - _Her so-called rescue plan was the idea of someone completely baked._
   - _He's baked if he thinks anyone will sign off on that._
5. Suffering the unpleasant aftereffects of having drunk too much alcohol.
   - Simple: Feeling sick and tired after drinking too much alcohol.
   - _The whole crew showed up baked and bleary the morning after the celebration._
   - _She nursed a black coffee, baked from one too many glasses of wine._
6. Permanently brain-damaged from drug use, whether genuinely so or only allegedly.
   - Simple: Having lasting brain damage from drug use, whether real or just claimed.
   - _Decades of addiction had left the old rocker permanently baked, unable to follow a conversation._
   - _His old bandmates whispered that he'd been baked since his twenties, his mind dulled by years of drugs._

## Verb

2. Simple past and past participle of bake. — simple past and past participle of bake
   - Simple: Past tense of bake. Use this form when the baking already happened.
   - _The neighbors baked dozens of pies for the harvest fair._
   - _The loaves were baked in a wood-fired oven overnight._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/baked (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).