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PRESSURE-COOK

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cook in a pressure cooker

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "pressure-cook" is one way to...):

cook (transform and make suitable for consumption by heating)

Domain category:

cookery; cooking; preparation (the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

The chefs pressure-cook the vegetables

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