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Definition roast
Etymology
From Middle English rosten, a borrowing from Old French rostir (“to roast, to torture with fire”), from Frankish *r?stijan (“to roast, broil”), from Proto-Germanic *raustijan? (“to roast”), from Proto-Indo-European *rews- (“to crackle; roast”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian rosterje (“to roast”), Dutch roosten, roosteren (“to roast”), German rösten (“to roast”).
Verb
roast (third-person singular simple present roasts, present participle roasting, simple past and past participle roasted)
- (transitive or intransitive or ergative) 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.
- (transitive or intransitive or ergative) To process by drying through exposure to sun or artificial heat
- To heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.
- (transitive, figuratively) To admonish someone vigorously
- (transitive, figuratively) To subject to bantering, severely criticize, sometimes as a comedy routine.
- (metalworking) To dissipate by heat the volatile parts of, as ores.
Noun
roast (plural roasts)
- A cut of meat suited to roasting
- A meal consisting of roast foods.
- The degree to which something, especially coffee, is roasted.
- A comical event, originally fraternal, where a person is subjected to verbal attack, yet may be praised by sarcasm and jokes.
Adjective
roast (not comparable)
- Having been cooked by roasting.
- (figuratively) Subjected to roasting, bantered, severely criticized.
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