roast

Plural: roasts

Noun

a piece of meat roasted or for roasting and of a size for slicing into more than one portion
negative criticism
A piece of meat suited to roasting; meat that has been roasted.
A meal consisting of roast foods.
The degree to which something, especially coffee, is roasted.
An instance of being severely admonished, criticized, roasted.
A comical event, originally fraternal, where a person is subjected to verbal attack, yet may be praised by sarcasm and jokes.
A social event at which food is roasted and eaten.
A creative insult as a response to something someone said.

Verb

Verb Forms: roasted, roasting, roasts

To cook food with dry heat, as in an oven or over fire.
cook with dry heat, usually in an oven
- "roast the turkey"
subject to laughter or ridicule
- "His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday"
To cook food by heating in an oven or over a fire without covering, resulting in a crisp, possibly even slightly charred appearance.
To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.
To process by drying through exposure to sun or artificial heat.
To heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.
To admonish someone vigorously.
To subject to bantering, severely criticize, sometimes as a comedy routine.
To dissipate the volatile parts of by heat, as ores.

Adjective Satellite

(meat) cooked by dry heat in an oven

Adj

Having been cooked by roasting.
Subjected to roasting; bantered; severely criticized.

Examples

Coffee beans need roasting before use.
Come over this weekend for Sunday roast.
Dark roast means that the coffee bean has been roasted to a higher temperature and for a longer period of time than in light roast.
He liked to ROAST his opponents, leaving them with no good plays.
He roasted a bully who then fought with him.
I'm late home for the fourth time this week; my mate will really roast me this time.
On Memorial Day we hosted a wiener roast in the backyard.
Serve the roast with gravy and mashed potatoes.
The class clown enjoys being roasted by mates as well as staff.
to roast a potato in ashes
to roast chestnuts or peanuts
to roast meat on a spit

Origin / 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”).

Synonyms

blackguard, guy, jest at, joint, knock, laugh at, make fun, poke fun, rib, ridicule, roasted, burn

Scrabble Score: 5

roast: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
roast: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
roast: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 5

roast: valid Words With Friends Word