roast

About 2.28 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. 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 roast meat on a spit

2. verb To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.

   to roast a potato in ashes

3. verb To process by drying through exposure to sun or artificial heat.

   Coffee beans need roasting before use.

4. verb To heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.
5. verb To admonish someone vigorously.

   I'm late home for the fourth time this week; my mate will really roast me this time.

6. verb To subject to bantering, severely criticize, sometimes as a comedy routine.

   He roasted a bully who then fought with him.

7. verb To dissipate the volatile parts of by heat, as ores.
8. noun A piece of meat suited to roasting; meat that has been roasted.

   Serve the roast with gravy and mashed potatoes.

Similar words

cooked knock joint fry pot toast loaf steak bun meat

Often followed by

beef chicken pork and the meat in turkey lamb

Word family

roasted roasting roasts