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