bakeEnglishOxford American Thesaurusbake verb 1 bake the fish for 15–20 mins: cook, oven-bake, dry-roast, roast, spit-roast, pot-roast; rare oven. 2 the surface of the earth has been baked into a crust: scorch, burn, sear, parch, dry (up), desiccate, wither, shrivel, fire; North American broil.