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Meaning of 'roast' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Roast [ a.]
- Roasted; as, roast beef.
2 . Roast [ n.]
- That which is roasted; a piece of meat which has been roasted, or is suitable for being roasted.
3 . Roast [ v. i.]
- To cook meat, fish, etc., by heat, as before the fire or in an oven.
- To undergo the process of being roasted.
4 . Roast [ v. t.]
- To cook by exposure to radiant heat before a fire; as, to roast meat on a spit, or in an oven open toward the fire and having reflecting surfaces within; also, to cook in a close oven.
- To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.; as, to roast a potato in ashes.
- To dry and parch by exposure to heat; as, to roast coffee; to roast chestnuts, or peanuts.
- Hence, to heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.
- To dissipate by heat the volatile parts of, as ores.
- To banter severely.

Meaning of 'roast' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . roast [ v]
Meaning (1):
- subject to laughter or ridicule
Example in sentence:
  • His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday;
  • The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house;
  • The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher
Meaning (2):
- cook with dry heat, usually in an oven
Example in sentence:
  • roast the turkey

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