roast

roast [rōst]

vt.

[ME rosten < OFr rostir < Frank * raustjan, akin to OHG rosten < rost, gridiron, roast]

1. to cook (something) with little or no moisture, as in an oven, over an open fire, or in hot embers [to roast a chicken, an ox, an ear of corn, etc.]

2. to dry, parch, or brown (coffee, etc.) by exposure to heat

3. to expose to great heat

4. to heat (an ore) in a furnace in the presence of oxygen or air so as to form oxides

5. to warm (oneself), as at a fireplace

6. Informal to criticize severely or ridicule without mercy

vi.

1. to roast meat, etc.

2. to be cooked by being roasted

3. to be or become very hot

n.

1. something roasted; esp., roasted meat or a piece of roasted meat

2. a cut of meat for roasting

3. a roasting or being roasted

☆ 4. a picnic at which food is roasted and eaten [a steer roast]

5. Informal

a) severe criticism or ridicule

☆ b) an entertainment at which a person, esp. a celebrity, undergoes severe but playful criticism

adj.

roasted [roast pork]

roasting

adj.