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cake

2 verb
     
cake2
1

be caked with/in something

to be covered with a layer of something soft or wet that becomes thick and hard when it dries:
Our boots were caked with mud.
2 [intransitive] if a substance cakes, it forms a thick hard layer when it dries
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