roast

Meaning

1. To cook food by heating in an oven or over a fire without covering, resulting in a crisp, possibly even slightly charred appearance.
2. To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.
3. To process by drying through exposure to sun or artificial heat.
4. To heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.
5. To admonish someone vigorously.
6. To subject to bantering, severely criticize, sometimes as a comedy routine.
7. To dissipate the volatile parts of by heat, as ores.

bake

roasted meat

jest at

make fun

light fire

roasting pan

roast meat

take to task

very hot

roasting meat

pork loin

criticize severely

anything roasted

braai

fry up

cook in an oven

bake in ashes

炙る

belabour

clapperclaw

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɹoʊst/

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”).