roast
/ɹəʊst/
Dictionary
noun
- A cut of meat suited to roasting
- A meal consisting of roast foods.
- The degree to which something, especially coffee, is roasted.
"Dark roast means that the coffee bean has been roasted to a higher temperature and for a longer period of time than in light roast."
- A comical event, originally fraternal, where a person is subjected to verbal attack, yet may be praised by sarcasm and jokes.
verb
- To cook food by heating in an oven or over a fire without covering, resulting in a crisp, possibly even slightly charred appearance.
"to roast meat on a spit"
- To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.
"to roast a potato in ashes"
- To process by drying through exposure to sun or artificial heat
"Coffee beans need roasting before use."
- To heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.
- To admonish someone vigorously
"I’m late home for the fourth time this week; my mate will really roast me this time."
- To subject to bantering, severely criticize, sometimes as a comedy routine.
"The class clown enjoys being roasted by mates as well as staff."
- To dissipate by heat the volatile parts of, as ores.
adjective
- Having been cooked by roasting.
- Subjected to roasting, bantered, severely criticized.
Synonyms:roasted
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