cake up

verb

To form (something) or for (something) to be formed into cakes (a block of any of various dense materials).

“He caked up the dirt.”

Meanings

verbcake up (third-person singular simple present cakes up, present participle caking up, simple past and past participle caked up)

present singular third person cakes up · participle present caking up · participle past caked up · past caked up

  1. intransitivetransitiveTo form (something) or for (something) to be formed into cakes (a block of any of various dense materials).

    He caked up the dirt.

    1 more example

    The concrete then cakes up through natural processes.

  2. intransitivetransitiveTo cake entirely (of blood or other liquid, to dry out and become hard).

    All the blood had caked up.

    1 more example

    An hour of drying out caked up the blood puddle.

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APA

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Chicago

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