Cook and Keep

Cook

Cook verb - To change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning of.

Keep and cook are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Keep" instead a verb "Cook".

Nearby Words: cooked, cooking, cookery, cooker, cooky

Keep

Keep verb - Prevent (food) from rotting.
Usage example: keep potatoes fresh

Cook and keep are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cook" instead a verb "Keep".

Nearby Words: keeping, keeper

Common collocations

people cook people keep people
job cook job keep job
children cook children keep children
house cook house keep house
Other words: time, way, items, everyone, enemies.

Both words in one sentence

  • To keep her safe, Yukari leaves Reimu behind but, as can be seen, the latter almost died of starvation and hypothermia, as lighting a fire to cook and keep warm with could have made smoke, which could have caused someone to take notice.
    Source: Morton's Fork
  • Literature / Matilda Matilda quickly intuits that it was a means of keeping Miss Honey at home to cook and keep house, though it didn't work when Miss Honey found a farmers' shed she could rent for 10 pence a week, and she suggests that Miss Honey draw unemployment money or hire a lawyer.
  • Literature / The Murder at the Vicarage aka: Murder At The Vicarage Lethal Chef: Griselda can't cook or keep house in general.
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