{
    "term": "bake",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b1",
    "image": "data/images/co/cooking.png",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "bake",
            "heSheIt": "bakes"
        },
        "pastSimple": "baked",
        "pastParticiple": "baked",
        "ingForm": "baking"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to cook food in an oven without extra fat or liquid; to be cooked in this way",
            "sensetop": "bake (something)bake something for somebodybake somebody something",
            "labels": "(British English)(North American English)(British English)(North American English)(especially North American English)(British English)(British English)",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "to bake bread/biscuits/cookies",
                    "contextForm": "bake (something)"
                },
                {
                    "text": "baked potatoes/apples"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the delicious smell of baking bread"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The bread is baking in the oven."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I've been baking all morning."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'm baking a birthday cake for Alex.",
                    "contextForm": "bake something for somebody"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'm baking Alex a cake.",
                    "contextForm": "bake somebody something"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Cooking and eating"],
            "collocations": {
                "phrases": ["freshly baked", "newly baked"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to become hard when heated; to make something hard by heating it",
            "sensetop": "bake something (+ adj.)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The bricks are left in the kiln to bake."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The sun had baked the ground hard.",
                    "contextForm": "bake something (+ adj.)"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "to be or become very hot",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "We sat baking in the sun."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/beɪk/",
                "audio": "ba/bake/bake__gb_4.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/beɪks/",
                "audio": "ba/bake/bakes__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/beɪkt/",
                "audio": "ba/bake/baked__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈbeɪkɪŋ/",
                "audio": "ba/bake/baking__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/beɪk/",
                "audio": "ba/bake/bake__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/beɪks/",
                "audio": "ba/bake/bakes__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/beɪkt/",
                "audio": "ba/bake/baked__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈbeɪkɪŋ/",
                "audio": "ba/bake/baking__us_2.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English bacan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch bakken and German backen."
}