MICRO-COOK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does micro-cook mean? 

• MICRO-COOK (verb)
  The verb MICRO-COOK has 1 sense:

1. cook or heat in a microwave oven

  Familiarity information: MICRO-COOK used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MICRO-COOK (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cook or heat in a microwave oven

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

micro-cook; microwave; nuke; zap

Context example:

You can microwave the leftovers

Hypernyms (to "micro-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 frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

The chefs micro-cook the vegetables