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caked

KAYKT/keɪkt/

3 meanings of caked

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  1. 1
    adjective
    Dried and hardened into a thick layer, or covered with such a layer.

    Like dried mud that turns hard and crusty on your shoes.

    His boots were caked with mud after the long hike.

    The old pan was caked with burnt grease.

    Similarencrusted, crusted, plastered, coated, covered

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  2. 2
    verb
    Past tense and past participle of cake. Use it for the past, or after has, have, had, is, was or were.

    Mud caked on his boots after the rainstorm.

    The dust caked over the old furniture in the attic.

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  3. 3
    adjectiveslang
    Used up, with only ash left and nothing more to smoke.

    Like a campfire that has burned down to nothing but ashes.

    The bowl was caked, so we packed a fresh one.

    By midnight the pipe was caked and we called it a night.

    Similarcashed, spent

    Oppositefresh, packed

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caked is a form of cake

cake, verb: To dry into a hard layer, or to cover something with a hard dry layer. Full entry

Forms
cakecakes he/she/itcaking -ing formcaked past tense, past participle
Spelling
cake → caked: add -d
Sound
The ending sounds like /t/.

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