roast

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   cooked by dry heat in an oven

   We had roast chicken for dinner.

2. 2
   verb

   cook with dry heat, usually in an oven

   roast the turkey

3. 3
   verb

   To cook food by heating in an oven or over a fire without covering, resulting in a crisp, possibly even slightly charred appearance.

   to roast meat on a spit

4. 4
   verb

   To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.

   to roast a potato in ashes

5. 5
   verb

   To process by drying through exposure to sun or artificial heat.

   Coffee beans need roasting before use.

6. 6
   verb

   To heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.

   roasted in wrath and fire

7. 7
   verb

   To admonish someone vigorously.

   I'm late home for the fourth time this week; my mate will really roast me this time.

8. 8
   verb

   To subject to bantering, severely criticize, sometimes as a comedy routine.

   He roasted a bully who then fought with him.

Etymology

From Middle English rosten, a borrowing from Old French rostir (“to roast, to torture with fire”), from Frankish *rōstijan (“to roast, broil”), from Proto-Germanic *raustijaną (“to roast”), from Proto-Indo-European *rews- (“to crackle; roast”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian rosterje (“to roast”), Dutch roosten, roosteren (“to roast”), German rösten (“to roast”). Displaced native Middle English breden, bræden (“to roast”), from Old English brǣdan, related to German braten (“to roast, grill”).