1. As hot as if in an oven
   "The baking hot desert sun made travel during midday unbearable";
   - baking hot
    
2. Feeling uncomfortably hot
   "It was a baking day, and everyone sought shade";
   - boiling, sweltering, roasting, steaming

1. Making bread, cake or pastry etc.
   "The aroma of fresh baking filled the kitchen"
    
2. Cooking by dry heat in an oven
   "The smell of baking filled the kitchen"

1. (cooking) cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven
   "bake the potatoes"
    
2. Prepare with dry heat in an oven
   "bake a cake"
    
3. Heat by a natural force
   "The sun bakes the valley in the summer";
   - broil [N. Amer], grill
    
4. Be very hot, due to hot weather or exposure to the sun
   "the tourists were baking in the heat";
   - broil [N. Amer], grill

Derived forms: bakings

See also: hot

Type of: be, cook, cookery, cooking, creating from raw materials, exist, heat, heat up, make from scratch, preparation

Encyclopedia: Baking