roast

  1. Verb.  (transitive) 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.
  2. Verb.  (transitive) To process by drying through exposure to sun or artificial heat.
  3. Verb.  (figuratively) (transitive) To admonish someone vigorously.
  4. Verb.  (figuratively) (transitive) To subject to bantering, severely criticize, sometimes as a comedy routine.
  5. Verb.  (intransitive) To undergo roasting in any of the above senses.
  6. Noun.  A cut of meat suited to roasting.
  7. Noun.  A meal consisting of roast foods.
  8. Noun.  (Originally fraternal) A comical event where a person is subjected to verbal attack or roasts, yet may be praised by sarcasm and jokes.
  9. Adjective.  having been cooked by roasting.
  10. Adjective.  (figuratively) subjected to roasting, bantered, severely criticized.

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