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roast

/ɹoʊst/ adjective B2
  1. Having been cooked by roasting.
  2. Subjected to roasting; bantered; severely criticized. (figuratively)
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You can roast it by the fire, since your tastes are so peculiar that you prefer cooked food, and then you will have a very good breakfast.”
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 37 · B2
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.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 6 · B2
Pinkney and this veal roast.”
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 4 · C1
Then, in spite of the failure of his first search, he began a second, after having told Gaetano to roast one of the two kids.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 345 · C1

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