roast

Verb

1. (ergative, intransitive, transitive) 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. (ergative, intransitive, transitive) To process by drying through exposure to sun or artificial heat.
4. To heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.
5. (figuratively, transitive) To admonish someone vigorously.
6. (figuratively, transitive) To subject to bantering, severely criticize, sometimes as a comedy routine.
7. To dissipate the volatile parts of by heat, as ores.

Noun

1. A piece of meat suited to roasting; meat that has been roasted.
2. A meal consisting of roast foods.
3. The degree to which something, especially coffee, is roasted.
4. An instance of being severely admonished, criticized, roasted.
5. A comical event, originally fraternal, where a person is subjected to verbal attack, yet may be praised by sarcasm and jokes.
6. (Canada, US) A social event at which food is roasted and eaten.
7. (slang) A creative insult as a response to something someone said.

Adj

1. (not-comparable) Having been cooked by roasting.
2. (figuratively, not-comparable) Subjected to roasting; bantered; severely criticized.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɹoʊst/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: rosten

Cognate with Saterland Frisian: rosterje

Cognate with Dutch: roosten

Cognate with German: rösten

In summary

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

bake

fry

burn

broil

toast

grill

cook

🧑‍🍳

parch

scorch

barbecue

singe

boil

joint

heat

grilled

fried

fire

🔥

warm

☀️

sear

broiled

light

boil down

laugh at

knock

torrefy

jest at

blackguard

poke fun

guy

char

roasted meat

rib

roasted

make fun

baked

ridicule

set on fire

dry

denigration

denigrate

dehydrate

braise

deep-fry

dazzling

criticize

criticism

blast

bark

jaw

invective