Definition of "roast"

roast

/ɹoʊst/

verb
third-person singular simple present roasts, present participle roasting, simple past and past participle roasted
1. (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.
2. To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.
  Quotations
  In eggs boiled and roasted […] there is scarce difference to be discerned.
  1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […]
3. (transitive or intransitive or ergative) To process by drying through exposure to sun or artificial heat.
4. To heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.
  Quotations
  roasted in wrath and fire
  c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene ii]
5. (transitive, figuratively) To admonish someone vigorously.
6. (transitive, figuratively) To subject to bantering, severely criticize, sometimes as a comedy routine.
7. (metalworking) To dissipate the volatile parts of by heat, as ores.
noun
plural roasts
1. A cut of meat suited to roasting; meat that has been roasted.
2. A meal consisting of roast foods.
3. The degree to which something, especially coffee, is roasted.
4. An instance of being severely admonished, criticized, roasted.
  Quotations
  “He ain’t no good!” With this she steps back to the table where Miss Montague has just tired of the Cuban, slips her arms about that seraph’s waist, and says: “Your Frank is in Washington and my Jasper has just given me a roast. Reckon we’ll both have to be bachelor girls to-night.”
  1899, Archibald Clavering Gunter, M.S. Bradford, Special, page 58
5. A comical event, originally fraternal, where a person is subjected to verbal attack, yet may be praised by sarcasm and jokes.
6. (Canada, US) A social event at which food is roasted and eaten.
7. (slang) A creative insult as a response to something someone said.
adjective
not comparable
1. Having been cooked by roasting.
2. (figuratively) Subjected to roasting; bantered; severely criticized.

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