roast
Meaning of roast
verb
- cook (food, especially meat) by prolonged exposure to heat in an oven or over a fire.
she was going to roast a leg of mutton for Sunday dinner
- criticize or reprimand severely.
if you waste his time he'll roast you
- (of food) having been roasted.
a plate of cold roast beef
- a joint of meat that has been roasted or that is intended for roasting.
carving the Sunday roast
- a banquet at which the guest of honour is subjected to good-natured ridicule.
Middle English: from Old French rostir, of West Germanic origin.
Information about roast
- The plural form of roast is: roasts.
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Hyphenation of roast
roast
- It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
- roast is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
roast synonyms
Meaning roasted:
Meaning joint:
Meaning knock:
Meaning ridicule:
ridicule, guy, blackguard, rib
Meaning prepare (food, a dish, or a meal) by mixing, combining, and heating the ingredients:
Meaning cook (food) by dry heat without direct exposure to a flame, typically in an oven:
Meaning cook (food) using a grill:
Meaning cook (meat or fish) by exposure to direct heat:
Translation of roast
Anagrams of roast
Astor, astor, Astro, ratos, Rotas, rotas, Sarto, sorta, taros, tarso, Toras, toras, Troas
Words that rhyme with roast
oast, boast, outboast, overboast, preboast, reboast, Palmcoast, Pancoast, accoast, coast, discoast, recoast, seacoast, upcoast, hoast, loast, aroast, overroast, ribroast, underroast, unroast, Milquetoast, milktoast, milquetoast, retoast, toast
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