toast
/toʊst/ verb C2- To cook lightly by browning by means of direct exposure to a fire or other heat source. · We used to enjoy toasting marshmallows around the campfire.
- To cook lightly by browning under a grill or in a toaster; to grill. · Top with cheese and toast under the grill for a few minutes.
- To engage in a salutation, often with raising of the drinking vessel, while drinking an alcoholic beverage in honor of someone or something. · We toasted the happy couple many times over the course of the evening.· You all have achieved so much together thus far, so I think that deserves a toast! Let's toast!
- To warm thoroughly. · I toasted my feet by the fire.
- To perform an extemporaneous narrative poem or rap.
He/she/it toasts · Past toasted · Past participle toasted · -ing form toasting
Verb forms
- Base form
- toast
- He/she/it
- toasts
- Past
- toasted
- Past participle
- toasted
- -ing form
- toasting
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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He sat with his mouth full of toast and his eyes sparkling with mischief, watching my intellectual entanglement.
However, this bottle was _not_ marked “poison,” so Alice ventured to taste it, and finding it very nice, (it had, in fact, a sort of mixed flavour of cherry-tart, custard, pine-apple, roast turkey, toffee, and hot buttered toast,) she very soon finished it off.
This toast, recalling at once the patient exile of Hartwell and the peace-loving King of France, excited universal enthusiasm; glasses were elevated in the air à l’Anglaise, and the ladies, snatching their bouquets from their fair bosoms, strewed the table with their floral treasures.
“Marquise, marquise!” interposed the old nobleman who had proposed the toast, “let the young people alone; let me tell you, on one’s wedding day there are more agreeable subjects of conversation than dry politics.”
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