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smoke

verb [T] (PRESERVE)
 
 
/sməʊk/ US  /smoʊk/

Definition

to preserve meat, fish, or cheese using smoke from burning wood: People in Egypt were salting, drying, and smoking fish and meat 6,000 years ago. She had champagne and smoked salmon sandwiches at her birthday party.Preserving and storing food
(Definition of smoke verb (PRESERVE) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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