cake
noun
a sweet, baked, breadlike food, made with or without shortening, and usually containing flour, sugar, baking powder or soda, eggs, and liquid flavoring.
have caked
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present perfectof cake.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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If the title and overall perspective are downers, the writers possess a contagious enthusiasm for showing how today’s profiteers have caked so much lipstick on the pig that you can hardly see its face.
From Washington Post
I hav 2 kittles, a skilit and a duzzen cans in the spring every nite wich is awl it wil hold and days i trys out the silver frum them wich have caked on nites.
From Old Gorgon Graham More Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son by Lorimer, George Horace
