- 1[transitive, usually passive] cake something (in/with something) to cover something with a thick layer of something soft that becomes hard when it dries Her shoes were caked with mud.
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- 2[intransitive] if a substance cakes, it becomes hard when it dries
cake
verbNAmE//keɪk//
Verb Forms present simple I / you / we / they cake he / she / it cakes
past simple caked
-ing form caking
adjective caked bloodSee cake in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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