roast

roast
—roastable, adj.
/rohst/, v.t.
1. to bake (meat or other food) uncovered, esp. in an oven.
2. to cook (meat or other food) by direct exposure to dry heat, as on a spit.
3. to brown, dry, or parch by exposure to heat, as coffee beans.
4. to cook or heat by embedding in hot coals, embers, etc.: to roast chestnuts.
5. to heat excessively: The summer sun has been roasting the entire countryside.
6. Metall. to heat (ore or the like) in air in order to oxidize it.
7. to warm at a hot fire: She roasted her hands over the fire.
8. Informal. to ridicule or criticize severely or mercilessly.
9. to honor with or subject to a roast: Friends roasted the star at a charity dinner.
v.i.
10. to roast meat or other food.
11. to undergo the process of becoming roasted.
n.
12. roasted meat or a piece of roasted meat, as a piece of beef or veal of a quantity and shape for slicing into more than one portion.
13. a piece of meat for roasting.
14. something that is roasted.
15. the act or process of roasting.
16. Informal. severe criticism.
17. a facetious ceremonial tribute, usually concluding a banquet, in which the guest of honor is both praised and good-naturedly insulted in a succession of speeches by friends and acquaintances.
18. an outdoor get-together, as a picnic or barbecue, at which food is roasted and eaten: a weenie roast.
adj.
19. roasted: roast beef.
[1250-1300; ME rosten (v.) < OF rostir < Gmc; cf. D roosten, G rösten]

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