cook | Definition of cook

cook

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of cook

1 to change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning of

it turns out the pharmaceutical researcher had cooked her data

Synonyms of cook

bend, color, distort, falsify, fudge, garble, misinterpret, misrelate, misrepresent, misstate, pervert, slant, twist, warp

Words Related to cook

misdescribe, misspeak, mistranslate

belie, camouflage, disguise, dissemble, gloss (over), mask, veil, whitewash

bowdlerize, censor

complicate, confound, confuse, mistake, mix (up)

mystify, obscure

equivocate, fib, lie, palter, prevaricate

Near Antonyms of cook

clarify, clear (up), explain, illuminate, illustrate, interpret, spell out

2 to take place

wondered what was cooking when several police cars pulled up to their neighbor's house

Synonyms of cook

be, befall, betide, chance, come, come about, come down, come off, do, go down [slang], go on, hap, happen, occur, pass, transpire

Words Related to cook

break, develop, rise, shape (up)

arise, come up, crop (up), materialize, spring (up)

fall out, follow, result, turn out

go off, proceed

Phrases Synonymous with cook