- 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 heat3. to expose to great heat4. to heat (an ore) in a furnace in the presence of oxygen or air so as to form oxides5. to warm (oneself), as at a fireplace6. Informal to criticize severely or ridicule without mercyvi.1. to roast meat, etc.2. to be cooked by being roasted3. to be or become very hotn.1. something roasted; esp., roasted meat or a piece of roasted meat2. a cut of meat for roasting3. a roasting or being roasted☆ 4. a picnic at which food is roasted and eaten [a steer roast]5. Informala) severe criticism or ridicule☆ b) an entertainment at which a person, esp. a celebrity, undergoes severe but playful criticismadj.roasted [roast pork]roastingadj.
English World dictionary. V. Neufeldt. 2014.