roast
Short definition from Wiktionary
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 cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.
- To process by drying through exposure to sun or artificial heat.
- To heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.
- To admonish someone vigorously.
- To subject to bantering, severely criticize, sometimes as a comedy routine.
- To dissipate the volatile parts of by heat, as ores.
Noun
- A piece of meat suited to roasting; meat that has been roasted.
- A meal consisting of roast foods.
- The degree to which something, especially coffee, is roasted.
- An instance of being severely admonished, criticized, roasted.
- A comical event, originally fraternal, where a person is subjected to verbal attack, yet may be praised by sarcasm and jokes.
- A social event at which food is roasted and eaten.
- A creative insult as a response to something someone said.
Adjective
- Having been cooked by roasting.
- Subjected to roasting; bantered; severely criticized.
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