cooked

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/kʊkt/

adj 5

Collocations

ADJ.

good, half, last, medium, nice, rare

The steak was cooked medium rare, just the way I like it.

VERB + COOKED

cooking, eat, files, like

I like cooked vegetables better than raw ones because they're easier to digest.

COOKED + NOUN

dinner, egg, herself, himself, kitchen, meal, meals, night

She cooked dinner for her family every evening after work.

PREP.

between, in, on, out, up

She cooked up a delicious pasta dinner for her family last night.

ADV.

gurgly, only, usually

The pasta usually cooked in about ten minutes when we had guests coming over.

Definitions

adj

Prepared by cooking.

Corrupted by conversion through a text format, requiring uncooking to be properly listenable.

Select this button only if you’re 200 percent sure that the files are cooked and that you want to overwrite the originals with the uncooked versions.

Another cause of poor MP3 playback—especially when the sound is “gurgly”—is a “cooked” file. This means that at some point, the MP3 file has been transferred over the Web as an ASCII text file rather than a binary file.

Partially or wholly fabricated, falsified.

But the Commanding Officer obviously has no say whatever as to which place he is likely to go, and the result is that, as regards rent, the figures have had to be “cooked,” if I may use such an expression. The figures have had to be cooked.

Done in, exhausted, pooped.

In trouble; in a hopeless situation.

If they killed men as they did this fall the Allies would be cooked in another year. He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked.

Everybody could see Hillary Clinton was cooked in Iowa.

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Idioms & Phrases

someone's goose is cooked

All hope is gone; there is no possibility of success; the period of good fortune is over.

If he doesn't win the next round, then his goose is cooked.

Example Bank

Select this button only if you’re 200 percent sure that the files are cooked and that you want to overwrite the originals with the uncooked versions.

Wiktionary

[S]upposed to sound, it may have been cooked. Cooking is a type of mangling that occurs when a server sends an audio file as text rather than as a binary file.

Wiktionary

Paula and I cooked dinner on Sunday.

Tatoeba · #33703

That was cooked in oil.

Tatoeba · #42051

Potatoes were being cooked in the kitchen by the girls.

Tatoeba · #53189

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