to cake
18
7.9
- verb
- /keɪk/
- The old frying pan has caked grease that makes it hard to clean.
- caked with mud
- caked with dust
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- I don't click yet they're caked in something.
- So I'm going to go ahead and just cake my face, just doing the huge.
- Smearing, smudging, clumping, caking, falling apart, dulling.
- The, the, the, the ground base of this cake has not been caked yet.
- It is on thick, heavy coverage side, but it doesn't cake up or look incredibly heavy.
- My hair was often full of just caked in.
- No amount of Goof Off or acetone can pull off the years, years old caked residue from duct tape.
- It's better than a shovel, especially for times where you just have some some caked soil on top.
- Clear and wings with the last dab caked.
Examples
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My feet got heavier as the snow started caking to my shoes.
Fiction book (1993) -
And so the front of my car is caked with bugs.
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Industrial salt, it was caked all over his shoes.
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The amount of paint caked onto these cars is insane.
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Her once shiny hair was now caked with dirt and tangled into an ugly mat.
Fiction book (1995) -
When your pans are caked with grease, these will make cleaning them up breeze.
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The headlights were caked with gumbo and issued barely more than a glow.
Fiction book (1991) -
Howard undressed in the hall, mud-caked pants crackling as they fell.
Fiction book (1995) -
The paint has caked on thickly, making it difficult to see the original color of the wall.
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After the storm, the car was caked with mud and debris from the flooded streets.
Synonyms
63
2.8
To cover something with a thin layer of a substance
46
3.8
To cover a surface thickly or stick things all over it
15
4.3
To cover something with a thin plastic layer to protect it
10
2.2
To put sweet icing on a cake or cupcake
9
4.2
To cover a surface with a smooth shiny liquid that dries hard, for example on food or pottery
4
3.4
To form a hard outer layer on something as it dries
3
8.1
To cover a surface roughly with a thick sticky substance
2
6.1
To become covered with a hard outer layer
1
4.4
Cover food with a sweet sugar layer
1
6.5
To cover a surface with a hard shiny layer for protection or decoration
1
9.9
To smear something roughly with paint, plaster, or another soft wet material
Put on a thick layer of something like paint or makeup
Idioms
Compounds
1
3.2
A very dark, rich chocolate cake that is moist and has a strong chocolate taste
- UK
1
7.7
A sponge cake soaked in wine or sherry and decorated with almonds and candied fruit
- Specialized
1
6.2
A pressed block of seeds left after their oil is removed and used as animal feed
- Specialized
1
5.8
Solid material left after people remove oil from cotton seeds used to feed animals or help plants grow
- Indian
1
6.0
Solid material left after oil is taken from cotton seeds used to feed animals or as fertilizer
- Indian
A solid left after squeezing neem seeds for oil that is used as a natural fertilizer and to control pests
How Coated
Surface Forms
Etymology
To cake (as a verb) comes from the noun cake: when dirt or snow sticks together into a hard 'lump' it looks like a cake. So to cake means to form a hard layer or thick coating.