# cooked

Pronunciation: say "KUUKT" /kʊkt/

## Adjective

1. Made ready to eat by applying heat, such as boiling, frying, roasting, or baking.
   - Simple: Made ready to eat by heating, such as boiling, frying, or baking.
   - _A plate of cooked vegetables sat steaming on the counter._
   - _The recipe calls for cooked lentils rather than dried ones._
3. Facing a hopeless situation with no realistic way to escape failure or defeat. *(slang)*
   - Simple: In serious trouble, with no way out of it.
   - _With two minutes left and no timeouts, the team was completely cooked._
   - _The moment the auditors found the missing files, the company was cooked._
4. Completely worn out and drained of physical or mental energy. *(slang)*
   - Simple: Very tired, with no energy left at all.
   - _By the final mile of the marathon, his legs were cooked._
   - _After back-to-back night shifts, the nurses were cooked._
5. Partly or wholly made up or falsified rather than genuine.
   - Simple: Made up or changed to be false, not real.
   - _Investigators found that the financial figures had been cooked._
   - _The dossier was largely cooked, padded with invented sources._
6. Intoxicated: drunk, high, or stoned from alcohol or drugs. *(slang, Australia)*
   - Simple: Drunk, or high from drugs.
   - _After the third round of shots, she was thoroughly cooked._
   - _They showed up to the concert already cooked._
7. Suffering the headache, nausea, and fatigue that follow a night of heavy drinking.
   - Simple: Sick and tired the day after drinking too much alcohol.
   - _Nursing a pounding head, he was clearly cooked after the wedding._
   - _The whole crew turned up cooked after the New Year's celebrations._
8. Permanently impaired in mental function as a lasting result of drug use.
   - Simple: Having a damaged brain because of using drugs.
   - _After a decade of abuse, his memory was shot and his friends called him cooked._
   - _The clinic treats addicts who are partly cooked from long-term use._
9. Crazy or mentally unhinged, judged by wildly irrational behavior. *(slang, Australia)*
   - Simple: Crazy, or acting in a strange and wild way.
   - _Anyone who drives in this weather for fun is completely cooked._
   - _His coworkers thought he was cooked for quitting a safe job to chase rainbows._
10. Of audio data: corrupted by conversion through a text format, so that it must be 'uncooked' before it will play properly. *(slang)*
   - Simple: Changed into a text form so that audio data no longer plays correctly.
   - _The samples were cooked by passing them through the text encoder, so nobody could play them._
   - _He had to uncook the cooked clips before playback worked at all._

## Verb

2. Past tense and past participle of cook. — simple past and past participle of cook
   - Simple: Past tense and past participle of cook. Use it for the past, or after has, have, had, is, was or were.
   - _He cooked a stew that simmered all afternoon._
   - _The vegetables were cooked until they turned tender._

## Origin

From the past tense of the verb "cook".

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