cook

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of COOK

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

Near Antonyms clarify, clear (up), explain, illuminate, illustrate, interpret, spell out; decipher

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

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

Related Words break, develop, rise, shape (up); arise, come up, crop (up), materialize, spring (up); intervene; fall out, follow, result, turn out; go off, proceed

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