bake

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• intransitive verb To cook (food) with dry heat, especially in an oven.
• intransitive verb To harden or dry (something) by subjecting to heat in or as if in an oven.
• intransitive verb To cook food with dry heat.
• intransitive verb To become hardened or dry by or as if by having been subjected to the heat of an oven.
• noun The act or process of baking.
• noun An amount baked.
• noun A social gathering at which food is cooked by baking and then served.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A baking.
• To cook by dry heat in a closed place, such as an oven: primarily used of this manner of cooking bread, but afterward applied to potatoes, apples, etc., and also flesh and fish: to be distinguished from roast (which see).
• To harden by heat, either in an oven, kiln, or furnace, or by the sun's heat: as, to bake bricks or pottery.
• 3. To harden by cold.
• To do the work of baking.
• To undergo the process of baking.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun The process, or result, of baking.
• intransitive verb To do the work of baking something.
• intransitive verb To be baked; to become dry and hard in heat.
• transitive verb To prepare, as food, by cooking in a dry heat, either in an oven or under coals, or on heated stone or metal.
• transitive verb To dry or harden (anything) by subjecting to heat, .
• transitive verb To harden by cold.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• verb transitive or intransitive To cook (something) in an oven.
• verb transitive To dry by heat.
• verb intransitive To prepare food by baking it.
• verb intransitive To be baked to heating or drying.
• verb intransitive, figuratively To be hot.
• verb intransitive, slang To smoke marijuana.
• noun UK, New Zealand Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole.
• noun The act of cooking food by baking.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb be very hot, due to hot weather or exposure to the sun
• verb heat by a natural force
• verb prepare with dry heat in an oven
• verb cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven