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gupda[굽따]Beginner · TOPIK IEating & cooking

bake; roast; grill

Verb

  1. 1

    bake; roast; grill

    To cook food over a fire.

    Korean definition: 음식을 불에 익히다.

    • Corn tastes great if you spread butter on it and grill it.

    • He has set up a wooden platform and is sitting there grilling pork belly on a grill plate.

  2. 2

    burn; make

    To make charcoal by burning wood.

    Korean definition: 나무를 태워 숯을 만들다.

    • Black smoke from charcoal making pours out of a dozen-odd kilns.

    • They lived in the mountains making charcoal and growing corn.

  3. 3

    bake; fire

    To heat earthen bricks, pottery, etc., so that they are hardened.

    Korean definition: 흙으로 만든 벽돌이나 도자기 등이 굳도록 열을 가하다.

    • She gave me a bowl she had fired herself as a gift.

    • He fires pottery in a kiln using exactly the traditional method.

  4. 4

    evaporate

    To make salt from seawater by exposing it to the sun or putting it over a fire.

    Korean definition: 바닷물에 햇빛을 쬐거나 불을 때어 소금만 남게 하다.

    • He used to work at a temple making bamboo salt by roasting it.

    • Salt makers end up praying for it not to rain.