to cook

Examples

• All

• Now all we have to do is cook up a false name.

  Jack Ensch: Hanoi Hilton POW (2016)

• He's in the basement right now cooking up some scheme.

  The Naughty Nine (2023)

• The three partners were cooking the books.

  Legal Eagles (1986)

• Like what is happening is, is, is this like who's cooking the books basically?

  Meet Kevin

• Perhaps they've been cooking up new evidence to prove that she's an unfit mother.

  Fiction book (1996)

• In the scandal, they were accused of cooking the data to make the survey results look more favorable.

• The investigation revealed that he had been cooking the financial reports for years, leading to serious consequences.

Synonyms

M

to manipulate

vsto cook

382 6.1

To control people or things in a clever, often dishonest way

focuses on altering records or figures, not on influencing people or situations

F

to fake

vsto cook

195 4.2

To make or change something to trick people

refers more specifically to changing numbers or records rather than objects

M

to misrepresent

vsto cook

71 6.9

Give a false story about someone or something to trick people

involves directly altering records or figures rather than only giving a false account

F

to fabricate

vsto cook

50 7.3

To make up false information to trick people

usually applies to changing existing records or figures rather than inventing

F

to falsify

vsto cook

• Formal

44 7.3

To make documents or facts not true to deceive people

focuses specifically on altering records or figures rather than any information

F

to fudge

vsto cook

11 7.5

To change numbers or facts dishonestly to hide the truth

means more serious tampering with records or figures rather than mild inaccuracy

D

to doctor

vsto cook

10 7.7

To change something to hide the truth

involves altering mainly records or figures with intent to deceive

Antonyms

T

to tell the truth

814 2.7

Say what really happened without hiding facts or lying

V

to verify

251 3.5

To make sure something is true or correct

Idioms

C

to cook up a storm

• Informal

2 4.6

To make a large amount of food for many people with great energy

C

to cook someone's goose

• Informal

8.8

Make someone lose their chance of success

Phrasal Verbs

C

to cook up

• Informal

37 5.6

Invent a story or excuse to trick people

C

to cook up

20 3.2

Prepare a quick meal by mixing ingredients you have

C

to cook at home

2 1.0

Make meals in your own home to eat

C

to cook evenly

2 2.5

Heat all parts of food so they are done at the same time

C

to cook out

• US

1 3.5

Make food outside on a grill or open fire

C

to cook up a plan

• Informal

1 4.4

To think of a clever or secret plan to do something

Compounds

F

fry cook

• US

4 2.5

A person who makes food in hot oil at a restaurant or diner

P

pastry cook

1 2.7

A person who makes cakes, pies and other sweet baked foods

C

Cook Strait

4.9

A narrow sea channel between New Zealand's North Island and South Island

M

Mount Cook lily

• New Zealand

8.6

A New Zealand plant with large white flowers that comes back each year in mountains

How Dishonest

to forge

• NSFW

66 7.1

to falsify

• Formal

44 7.3

to cook

• Informal

138 8.6

to tamper

113 4.9

to manipulate

382 6.1

Surface Forms

Etymology