Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word ROAST
ROAST
Definitions of ROAST
- To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.
- To heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.
- A meal consisting of roast foods.
- The degree to which something, especially coffee, is roasted.
- A comical event, originally fraternal, where a person is subjected to verbal attack, yet may be praised by sarcasm and jokes.
- Having been cooked by roasting.
- A cut of meat suited to roasting; meat that has been roasted.
- (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.
- (transitive or intransitive or ergative) To process by drying through exposure to sun or artificial heat.
- (transitive, figuratively) To admonish someone vigorously.
- (transitive, figuratively) To subject to bantering, severely criticize, sometimes as a comedy routine.
- (metalworking) To dissipate the volatile parts of by heat, as ores.
- An instance of being severely admonished, criticized, roasted. [from 18th century]
- (North America) A social event at which food is roasted and eaten. [from 19th century]
- (slang) A creative insult as a response to something someone said.
- (figuratively) Subjected to roasting; bantered; severely criticized.
Number of letters
5
Is palindrome
No
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