[{"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to prepare (food) by the use of heat, as by boiling, baking, or roasting.", "to subject (anything) to the application of heat.", "Slang.to ruin ; spoil .", "to process (computer programming code or other digital data) for use in an executable file format.", "Slang.to falsify, as accounts:to cook the expense figures."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["to prepare food by the use of heat.", "(of food) to undergo cooking.", "Slang.to be full of activity and excitement:Las Vegas cooks around the clock.to perform, work, or do in just the right way and with energy and enthusiasm:That new drummer is really cooking tonight. Now you're cooking!to be in preparation; develop :Plans for the new factory have been cooking for several years.to take place; occur ; happen :What's cooking at the club?", "to be full of activity and excitement:Las Vegas cooks around the clock.", "to perform, work, or do in just the right way and with energy and enthusiasm:That new drummer is really cooking tonight. Now you're cooking!", "to be in preparation; develop :Plans for the new factory have been cooking for several years.", "to take place; occur ; happen :What's cooking at the club?"]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["a person who cooks:The restaurant hired a new cook."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb phrase", "List Items": ["Informal.to concoct or contrive, often dishonestly:She hastily cooked up an excuse.to falsify :Someone had obviously cooked up the alibi.", "to concoct or contrive, often dishonestly:She hastily cooked up an excuse.", "to falsify :Someone had obviously cooked up the alibi.", "(of a shell or cartridge) to explode or fire without being triggered as a result of overheating in the chamber of the weapon."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["to hide, especially outdoors, as by crouching down behind a hedge."]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["Frederick Albert,1865–1940,U.S. physician and polar explorer.", "George Cram[jawrj, , kram],1873–1924,U.S. novelist, dramatist, and poet.", "Captain James,1728–79,English navigator and explorer in the South Pacific South Pacificand Southern Oceans, particularly in the areas of Australia and New Zealand New Zealand.", "Sir Joseph,1860–1947,Australian statesman, born in England: prime minister of Australia 1913–14.", "Mount Cook,a mountain in New Zealand New Zealand,on South Island South Island.12,349 feet (3,764 meters).Also called A·o·ra·ki[ah-oh-, rah, -kee],"]}]