roast
IPA: rˈoʊst
noun
- A cut of meat suited to roasting; meat that has been roasted.
- A meal consisting of roast foods.
- The degree to which something, especially coffee, is roasted.
- An instance of being severely admonished, criticized, roasted.
- A comical event, originally fraternal, where a person is subjected to verbal attack, yet may be praised by sarcasm and jokes.
- (Canada, US) A social event at which food is roasted and eaten.
- (slang) A creative insult as a response to something someone said.
verb
- (transitive or intransitive or ergative) To cook food by heating in an oven or over a fire without covering, resulting in a crisp, possibly even slightly charred appearance.
- To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.
- (transitive or intransitive or ergative) To process by drying through exposure to sun or artificial heat.
- To heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.
- (transitive, figuratively) To admonish someone vigorously.
- (transitive, figuratively) To subject to bantering, severely criticize, sometimes as a comedy routine.
- (metalworking) To dissipate the volatile parts of by heat, as ores.
adjective
- Having been cooked by roasting.
- (figuratively) Subjected to roasting; bantered; severely criticized.
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Examples of "roast" in Sentences
- The meat is roasted well.
- The pork was roasted too much.
- He often prefers to roast chickens.
- Whenever she roasts, she burns meat.
- It will replace the roasted sirloin.
- The remainder was roasted and eaten.
- The man roasted the pickerel to eat.
- Rub the salt and pepper on the roast.
- The cotyledon of the nut is eaten boiled or roasted.
- Roasts The roasts of the beans that are used for espresso are important.
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