Roast

Quick meaning: Roast is a verb meaning (transitive) To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.

Meaning

(transitive) To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.

More Meanings

1. (transitive or intransitive or ergative) To process by drying through exposure to sun or artificial heat.
2. To heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.
3. (transitive, figuratively) To admonish someone vigorously.
4. (transitive, figuratively) To subject to bantering, severely criticize, sometimes as a comedy routine.
5. (metalworking) To dissipate the volatile parts of by heat, as ores.
6. A piece of meat suited to roasting; meat that has been roasted.
7. (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.

Example Sentences

to roast meat on a spit

roasted in wrath and fire

to roast a potato in ashes

to roast chestnuts or peanuts

Word Forms

• roasts
• roasting
• roasted

Synonyms for roast

Depending on context, synonyms include joint, burn, roasted, knock, cooked.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cooked, knock, joint, fry, pot, toast.

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