roast
Definitions
- A piece of meat suited to roasting; meat that has been roasted.
- To cook food by heating in an oven or over a fire without covering, resulting in a crisp, possibly even slightly charred appearance
- A meal consisting of roast foods.
- To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc
- The degree to which something, especially coffee, is roasted.
- To process by drying through exposure to sun or artificial heat
- An instance of being severely admonished, criticized, roasted.
- To heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn
- To admonish someone vigorously
- A comical event, originally fraternal, where a person is subjected to verbal attack, yet may be praised by sarcasm and jokes.
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A social event at which food is roasted and eaten. Canada, US
- A creative insult as a response to something someone said.
Equivalents
Examples
“Near-synonym: joint”
“Serve⟳ the roast with gravy and mashed potatoes.”
“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 ain’t no good!” With this she steps back to the table where Miss⟳ Montague has just tired of the Cuban, slips her arms about that seraph’s waist, and says: “Your Frank is in Washington and my Jasper has just given me a roast. Reckon we’ll both have⟳ to be bachelor girls to-night.””
“On Memorial Day we hosted a wiener roast in the backyard.”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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