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/rˈoʊstəd/ /rˈoʊstɪd/ Listen

verb

Roast v. t. (past & past part. roasted; pres. part. roasting)

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. "In eggs boiled and roasted there is scarce difference to be discerned."

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. "Roasted in wrath and fire."

(Metal.) To dissipate by heat the volatile parts of, as ores.

To banter severely. (Colloq.)

Roast v. i.

To cook meat, fish, etc., by heat, as before the fire or in an oven. "He could roast, and seethe, and broil, and fry."

To undergo the process of being roasted.

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Etymology of 'Roasted'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Roasted" Quotes from Famous Books

... their sanguine speculations, no ship appeared. Ben Zoof admitted the necessity of extemporizing a kind of parasol for himself, otherwise he must literally have been roasted to death upon the exposed ...

— Off on a Comet • Jules Verne

... went his ways and roasted it on a rod; and when the blood bubbled out he laid his finger thereon to essay it, if it were fully done; and then he set his finger in his mouth, and lo, when the heart-blood of the worm touched his tongue, straightway he knew the voice of all fowls, ...

— The Story of the Volsungs, (Volsunga Saga) - With Excerpts from the Poetic Edda • Anonymous

... to ask you," Gavin said as they went along the Tenements, which smelled at that hour of roasted potatoes, "why ...

— The Little Minister • J.M. Barrie

... belonging to the Monbuttoos, who inhabit the interior of Africa a few degrees north of the equator, says, "Like all her race, she had a skin several shades lighter than her husband's, being something of the colour of half-roasted coffee." (2. 'The Heart of Africa,' English transl. 1873, vol i. p. 544.) As the women labour in the fields and are quite unclothed, it is not likely that they differ in colour from the men owing to less exposure to the weather. ...

— The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex • Charles Darwin

... in diagnosis is of immense value; applied to the thinned horn or secreting surface it unmistakably demonstrates the presence or absence of canker. Healthy tissue chars black; cankered tissue, on the contrary, bubbles up white under the hot iron, and presents an appearance not unlike roasted cheese. ...

— Diseases of the Horse's Foot • Harry Caulton Reeks

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