Word Meaning

roast definition and meaning

v. t. To cook by exposure to radiant heat before a fire; as, to roast meat on a spit, or in an oven open toward the fire and having reflecting surfaces within; also, to cook in a close oven.
v. t. To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.; as, to roast a potato in ashes.
v. t. To dry and parch by exposure to heat; as, to roast coffee; to roast chestnuts, or peanuts.
v. t. Hence, to heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.
v. t. To dissipate by heat the volatile parts of, as ores.
v. t. To banter severely.
v. i. To cook meat, fish, etc., by heat, as before the fire or in an oven.
v. i. To undergo the process of being roasted.
n. That which is roasted; a piece of meat which has been roasted, or is suitable for being roasted.
a. Roasted; as, roast beef.

Crossword clues for roast

- Bake
- Bake (beef)
- Bake (lamb)
- Bake (pork)
- Bake in oven
- Cook in an oven
- Cook in fat
- Cook in oven
- Cook meat in an oven
- Cook over fire
- Find fault with Sunday joint
- Good-natured public tease
- Knock
- Make or be very hot
- Meat dish
- Poke fun at joint
- Rats treated with nothing in Sunday joint
- Severely criticise cook in oven
- Severely criticise Sunday joint
- Sunday joint
- Swelter