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Antonyms for baste

Grammar : Verb
Spell : beyst
Phonetic Transcription : beɪst

Definition of baste

Origin :
  • "sew together loosely," c.1400, from Old French bastir "build, construct, sew up (a garment), baste, make, prepare, arrange" (12c., Modern French bâtir "to build"), probably from a Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *bastjan "join together with bast" (cf. Old High German besten; see bast).
  • verb moisten during cooking
  • verb sew temporarily
  • verb pummel, thrash
Example sentences :
  • Put it into the oven, and baste it occasionally, while baking, with its own drippings.
  • Extract from : « Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches » by Eliza Leslie
  • Repeat this frequently while it is roasting; after a while you can baste it with its own fat.
  • Extract from : « Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches » by Eliza Leslie
  • Baste it at first with a little salt and water, and then with its own drippings.
  • Extract from : « Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches » by Eliza Leslie
  • If you baste it with any thing else, or with its own dripping, the skin will not be crisp.
  • Extract from : « Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches » by Eliza Leslie
  • To baste it with its own dripping will make the skin tough and hard.
  • Extract from : « Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches » by Eliza Leslie
  • Baste it at first with a little salt and water, and then with its own gravy.
  • Extract from : « Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches » by Eliza Leslie
  • Lay in the pan in which it is to be roasted some fat pork to baste it.
  • Extract from : « Culture and Cooking » by Catherine Owen
  • When the first basting is dry, baste it again, and repeat this till the bird is nicely crusted over, and sufficiently done.
  • Extract from : « The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, » by Mary Eaton
  • Here Paddy was questioned why he considered the wren as cunning a baste as the fox.
  • Extract from : « The Universal Reciter » by Various
  • The cat is but typical of the qualities attributed to Baste.
  • Extract from : « The Cat of Bubastes » by G. A. Henty

Synonyms for baste

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