PRESSURE-COOK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pressure-cook mean? 

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

1. cook in a pressure cooker

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRESSURE-COOK (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