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roast

Pronunciation: /ɹoʊst/

The English word “roast” has 16 meanings listed here.

verb

  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. To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.
  3. To process by drying through exposure to sun or artificial heat.
  4. To heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.
  5. To admonish someone vigorously.
  6. To subject to bantering, severely criticize, sometimes as a comedy routine.
  7. To dissipate the volatile parts of by heat, as ores.

noun

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

adjective

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

Etymology

From Middle English rosten, a borrowing from Old French rostir (“to roast, to torture with fire”), from Frankish *rōstijan (“to roast, broil”), from Proto-Germanic *raustijaną (“to roast”), from Proto-Indo-European *Hrews- (“to crackle; roast”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian rosterje (“to roast”), Dutch roosten, roosteren (“to roast”), German rösten (“to roast”). Displaced native Middle English…

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