roast

Short definition from Wiktionary

Verb

1. 1
   To cook food by heating in an oven or over a fire without covering, resulting in a crisp, possibly even slightly charred appearance.
2. 2
   To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.
3. 3
   To process by drying through exposure to sun or artificial heat.
4. 4
   To heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.
5. 5
   To admonish someone vigorously.
6. 6
   To subject to bantering, severely criticize, sometimes as a comedy routine.
7. 7
   To dissipate the volatile parts of by heat, as ores.

Noun

1. 1
   A piece of meat suited to roasting; meat that has been roasted.
2. 2
   A meal consisting of roast foods.
3. 3
   The degree to which something, especially coffee, is roasted.
4. 4
   An instance of being severely admonished, criticized, roasted.
5. 5
   A comical event, originally fraternal, where a person is subjected to verbal attack, yet may be praised by sarcasm and jokes.
6. 6
   A social event at which food is roasted and eaten.
7. 7
   A creative insult as a response to something someone said.

Adjective

1. 1
   Having been cooked by roasting.
2. 2
   Subjected to roasting; bantered; severely criticized.