COOKING Synonyms: 84 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

Definition of cooking

as in cuisine

the art or style of preparing food (as in a specified region) a TV show that teaches viewers the basics of French cooking

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verb

present participle of cook

as in misrepresenting

to change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning of it turns out the pharmaceutical researcher had cooked her data

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as in happening

to take place wondered what was cooking when several police cars pulled up to their neighbor's house

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Its three-rack interior offers 544 square inches of cooking space. — New Atlas, 14 Aug. 2026 However, these coatings remain common in lower-temperature cooking appliances (including many name-brand rice cookers), and that worries less than high-heat applications. — Adam Campbell-Schmitt, Bon Appetit Magazine, 14 Aug. 2026

Verb

Probably the biggest worry this slow cooker gave me was its plastic-y smell, even on my third round of cooking with it. — Adam Campbell-Schmitt, Bon Appetit Magazine, 14 Aug. 2026 But by the 1960s, the techniques of Central Texas — sprinkling briskets with salt and pepper and cooking them over indirect heat — started to become more commonplace. — Catherine Garcia, TheWeek, 13 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for cooking

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Noun

According to Disney, guests will have the chance to explore the city, meet its citizens, taste unique cuisine, and step into the everyday world of monsters in a totally new way.

— Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 16 Aug. 2026
Traveling with children who have exhausted their enthusiasm for Moroccan cuisine?

— Rachel Dube, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2026

Definition of cuisine

Verb

Cohen testified before Congress in 2019, alleging Trump had a history of misrepresenting the value of assets to gain favorable loan terms and tax benefits.

— ABC News, ABC News, 20 Aug. 2026
O’Connell’s office later accused the station of selectively editing and misrepresenting his remarks and released a longer version of the exchange.

— Ashley Hume , Larry Fink, FOXNews.com, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of misrepresenting

Verb

The more interesting story, however, was happening inside the cockpit.

— Bernard Marr, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2026
Operating from the air, it is designed to help military forces detect and track activity and maintain a broader picture of what is happening around them.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of happening

Verb

But the current state of geopolitics appears to be distorting what being open means.

— Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 19 Aug. 2026
China’s aircraft engineers have warned that artificial intelligence could feed false data into military intelligence, potentially distorting the design and operation of advanced weapons.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of distorting

Verb

For the first time, two worlds—once separated—are coming face to face, not through screams, but through laughter.

— Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 16 Aug. 2026
Game time is coming more regularly now for the 16-year-old, having racked up almost 50 percent of his senior career minutes since the start of May.

— Thom Harris, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2026

Definition of coming

Verb

Videos posted to Instagram show the tornadic waterspouts, a rare weather phenomenon considered a tornado but occurring over water, which extended from the Queens shoreline as thunder boomed overhead.

— Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 21 Aug. 2026
Is marketing attracting the right patients, or is the breakdown occurring later in the patient journey?

— Ashraf Altawashi, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026

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