Meaning & use
baste
To moisten meat periodically with fat or juices while it cooks, in order to keep it tender.
See it in a sentence
She basted the turkey every thirty minutes to keep the skin from drying out.
He used a spoon to baste the chicken with butter as it roasted.
A note on using this word
Baste also has an unrelated sewing sense, meaning to sew fabric together loosely with temporary stitches.
Words with a similar meaning
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Another way to use it
2. verb
To sew fabric loosely with temporary, wide stitches before final, permanent sewing.
The tailor basted the hem in place so the customer could try it on first.
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