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A cut of meat suited to roasting

A meal consisting of roast foods.

The degree to which something, especially coffee, is roasted.

Example: Dark roast means that the coffee bean has been roasted to a higher temperature and for a longer period of time than in light roast.

A comical event, originally fraternal, where a person is subjected to verbal attack, yet may be praised by sarcasm and jokes.

To cook food by heating in an oven or over a fire without covering, resulting in a crisp, possibly even slightly charred appearance.

Example: to roast meat on a spit

To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.

Example: to roast a potato in ashes

To process by drying through exposure to sun or artificial heat

Example: Coffee beans need roasting before use.

To heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.

Having been cooked by roasting.

Subjected to roasting, bantered, severely criticized.