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cake

/keɪk/
noun
  1. A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.

    Similar: gâteau

  2. A small mass of baked dough, especially a thin loaf from unleavened dough.

    "a johnnycake"

  3. A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake.

    "buckwheat cakes"

Synonymsblock, gâteau, piece of cake
verb
  1. Coat (something) with a crust of solid material.

    "His shoes are caked with mud."

    Similar: crust, encrust

  2. To form into a cake, or mass.

Synonymscrust, encrust

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