Looking for the meaning or definition of the word roast? Here's what it means.
Verb
(transitive or intransitive or ergative) 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.
(transitive or intransitive or ergative) To process by drying through exposure to sun or artificial heat
To heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.
(transitive, figuratively) To admonish someone vigorously
(transitive, figuratively) To subject to bantering, severely criticize, sometimes as a comedy routine.
(metalworking) To dissipate by heat the volatile parts of, as ores.
