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cooked

KUUKT/kʊkt/

10 meanings of cooked

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  1. 1
    adjective
    Made ready to eat by heating, such as boiling, frying, or baking.

    Like raw dough that turns into bread after time in the oven.

    The cooked rice was still warm when we sat down.

    We packed some cooked chicken for the long drive.

    Oppositeraw, uncooked, unprepared

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

    She cooked dinner for the whole family last night.

    They cooked breakfast over the campfire at dawn.

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  3. 3
    adjectiveslangnot before a noun
    In serious trouble, with no way out of it.

    Like a fish already caught in the net: there's no getting away.

    If we miss this train, we're cooked.

    Once the boss saw the mistake, I knew I was cooked.

    Similardoomed, finished, done

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  4. 4
    adjectiveslang
    Very tired, with no energy left at all.

    Like a phone battery that has run all the way down.

    After the long hike, I was totally cooked.

    She felt cooked after working two shifts in a row.

    Similarexhausted, spent, drained, shattered, beat

    Oppositefresh, energetic, rested

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  5. 5
    adjective
    Made up or changed to be false, not real.

    Like a story someone invents just to fool you.

    The whole report turned out to be cooked.

    He handed them cooked numbers to hide the loss.

    Similarfalsified, doctored, fabricated, rigged, fake

    Oppositegenuine, authentic, accurate

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  6. 6
    adjectiveslangAustralia
    Drunk, or high from drugs.

    He was too cooked to drive home safely.

    By midnight, half the party was cooked.

    Similarintoxicated, baked, toasted

    Oppositesober

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  7. 7
    adjective
    Sick and tired the day after drinking too much alcohol.

    He was cooked the morning after the party.

    She felt so cooked she couldn't face breakfast.

    Similarhungover

  8. 8
    adjective
    Having a damaged brain because of using drugs.

    Years of heavy use left him cooked.

    People said the singer was cooked after all that time on hard drugs.

    Similarfried

  9. 9
    adjectiveslangderogatoryfigurativelyAustralia
    Crazy, or acting in a strange and wild way.

    After living alone so long, the old man seemed a little cooked.

    You'd have to be cooked to jump off that cliff.

    Similarcrazy, insane, demented, deranged, bonkers

    Oppositesane, rational, sensible

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  10. 10
    adjectiveslang
    Changed into a text form so that audio data no longer plays correctly.

    Like a song typed out in letters instead of saved as sound: it won't play until you change it back.

    The sound file came out cooked after the upload.

    Don't email the raw audio, or it'll arrive cooked.

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cooked is a form of cook

cook, verb: To make food ready to eat by heating it. Full entry

Forms
cookcooks he/she/itcooking -ing formcooked past tense, past participle
Spelling
cook → cooked: add -ed
Sound
The ending sounds like /t/.

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Origin

From the past tense of the verb "cook".