bake up

verb

To prepare by baking.

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Meanings

verbbake up (third-person singular simple present bakes up, present participle baking up, simple past and past participle baked up)

present singular third person bakes up · participle present baking up · participle past baked up · past baked up

  1. idiomatictransitiveTo prepare by baking.

    [W]e can celebrate Valentine’s Day in good chocolatoholic style, baking up a veritable chocolate storm with chocolate dessert recipes.

    1983 January 26, Cathy Mauk, “Chocolate desserts to melt your Valentine’s heart”, in The Forum, volume 105, number 71, Fargo, N.D., →ISSN, →OCLC, page B-4, column 1
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APA

bake up. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bake%20up

MLA

“bake up.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bake%20up. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bake up,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bake%20up.

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