Roast

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To cook with dry heat, as in an oven or near hot coals.
  • v. To dry, brown, or parch by exposing to heat.
  • v. To expose to great or excessive heat.
  • v. Metallurgy To heat (ores) in a furnace in order to dehydrate, purify, or oxidize before smelting.
  • v. Informal To ridicule or criticize harshly.
  • v. Informal To honor at or subject to a roast.
  • verb-intransitive. To cook food in an oven.
  • verb-intransitive. To undergo roasting.
  • n. Something roasted.
  • n. A cut of meat suitable or prepared for roasting.
  • n. The act or process of roasting.
  • n. The state of being roasted.
  • n. Harsh ridicule or criticism.
  • n. A facetious tribute, as at a banquet, in which the honoree is alternately praised and insulted.
  • adj. Roasted: roast duck.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To cook food by heating in an oven or over fire without covering, resulting in a crisp, possibly even slightly charred appearance to the food.
  • v. To process by drying through exposure to sun or artificial heat
  • v. To admonish someone vigorously
  • v. To subject to bantering, severely criticize, sometimes as a comedy routine.
  • n. A cut of meat suited to roasting
  • n. A meal consisting of roast foods.
  • n. A comical event where a person is subjected to verbal attack, yet may be praised by sarcasm and jokes.
  • adj. having been cooked by roasting
  • adj. subjected to roasting, bantered, severely criticized
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To cook by exposure to radiant heat before a fire; ; also, to cook in a close oven.
  • v. To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc..
  • v. To dry and parch by exposure to heat
  • v. Hence, to heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.
  • v. To dissipate by heat the volatile parts of, as ores.
  • v. To banter severely.
  • verb-intransitive. To cook meat, fish, etc., by heat, as before the fire or in an oven.
  • verb-intransitive. To undergo the process of being roasted.
  • n. That which is roasted; a piece of meat which has been roasted, or is suitable for being roasted.
  • adj. Roasted.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To cook, dress, or prepare (meats) for eating, originally on a grate or gridiron over or beneath a fire (broiling), but now by exposure to the direct action of dry heat (toasting).
  • To heat to excess; heat violently.
  • To dry and parch by exposure to heat: as, to roast coffee.
  • In metallurgy, to heat with access of air. ; ;
  • To expose (a person) to scathing ridicule or jesting, as by a company of persons, or for the amusement of a company.
  • To perform the act of cooking by the direct action of dry heat.
  • To become roasted or fit for eating by exposure to fire; hence, to be overheated or parched.
  • Roasted: as, roast beef; roast meat.
  • n. That which is roasted, specifically a piece of beef; that part of a slaughtered animal which is selected for roasting, as a sirloin of beef or a shoulder of mutton.
  • In agriculture, in the process of bare-fallowing, to subject (the soil) to the full force of the sun in order to kill the weeds.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a piece of meat roasted or for roasting and of a size for slicing into more than one portion
  • v. subject to laughter or ridicule
  • n. negative criticism
  • v. cook with dry heat, usually in an oven
  • adj. (meat) cooked by dry heat in an oven
  • Equivalent
    cooked   
    Verb Form
    roasted    roasting    roasts   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    critique    criticism   
    Cross Reference
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    burn    roasted    cook    glow   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Post    boast    coast    diagnosed    engrossed    ghost    grossed    host    most    ost   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    steak    stew    pork    chop    fry    cutlet    venison    salad    turkey    gravy