roast
/ɹoʊst/ verb A2- 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 roast chestnuts or peanuts
- 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. · He roasted a bully who then fought with him.· The class clown enjoys being roasted by mates as well as staff.
- To dissipate the volatile parts of by heat, as ores.
He/she/it roasts · Past roasted · Past participle roasted · -ing form roasting
Verb forms
- Base form
- roast
- He/she/it
- roasts
- Past
- roasted
- Past participle
- roasted
- -ing form
- roasting
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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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 second visit was a long one, and when he returned the kid was roasted and the repast ready.
They were hungry, and the smell of the roasted kid was very savory, and your tars are not very ceremonious.
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.”
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