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.
To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.; as, to roast a potato in ashes.
To dry and parch by exposure to heat; as, to roast coffee; to roast chestnuts, or peanuts.
Hence, to heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.
To dissipate by heat the volatile parts of, as ores.
To banter severely.
To cook meat, fish, etc., by heat, as before the fire or in an oven.
To undergo the process of being roasted.
That which is roasted; a piece of meat which has been roasted, or is suitable for being roasted.
The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne. Samuel Johnson
The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg. Alexander Pope
A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer. Garrison Keillor
A hot dog at the game beats roast beef at the Ritz. Humphrey Bogart
I had my first French meal and I never got over it. It was just marvelous. We had oysters and a lovely dry white wine. And then we had one of those lovely scalloped dishes and the lovely, creamery buttery sauce. Then we had a roast duck and I don't know what else. Julia Child
roast in Afrikaans is braai
roast in Danish is stege
roast in Dutch is braden, roosteren, branden
roast in Finnish is paistaa
roast in Italian is cuocio
roast in Norwegian is steke
roast in Spanish is asar
roast in Swedish is steka, stek
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