Cook
Cook verb - To change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning of.
Keep
Keep verb - Prevent (food) from rotting.
Usage example: keep potatoes fresh
Common collocations
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 -
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.
Source: Literature / Matilda -
Lethal Chef: Griselda can't cook or keep house in general.
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