roastverb
uk/rəʊst/us/roʊst/roast verb (COOK)
A2 [ T or I ] to cook food in an oven or over a fire:
[ T or I ] to heat nuts or coffee beans so that they become drier and browner
More examples
- I roasted the vegetables with some olive oil.
- Have these red peppers been roasted?
- Roast the lamb in a hot oven for 45 minutes.
- I roasted a few nuts.
- We roasted chestnuts on the open fire.
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Preparing food using heat
- bake
- barbecue
- baste
- batch-bake
- boil sth up
- boiled
- curry
- flambé
- flash-fry
- fried
- frizzled
- fry
- microwave
- precook
- preheat
- render
- render sth down
- rendering
- sauté
- shallow-fry
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roast verb (CRITICIZE)
[ T ] informal to criticize severely or speak angrily to someone:
mainly US [ T ] informal to humorously criticize and make jokes about a famous person at a public event honouring that person, as a part of the event:
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Chastising & rebuking
- admonition
- barracking
- bawl
- be in sb's face idiom
- beat yourself up
- bring
- come down on sb like a ton of bricks idiom
- crucify
- dressing-down
- keelhaul
- lambaste
- lay
- neck
- rebuke
- reprimand
- reproachful
- there'll be hell to pay idiom
- throw
- throw the book at sb idiom
- upbraid
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roastadjective [ before noun ]
uk/rəʊst/us/roʊst/also roastedA2 Roast meat or vegetables have been cooked in an oven or over a fire:
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Preparing food using heat
- bake
- barbecue
- baste
- batch-bake
- boil sth up
- boiled
- curry
- flambé
- flash-fry
- fried
- frizzled
- fry
- microwave
- precook
- preheat
- render
- render sth down
- rendering
- sauté
- shallow-fry
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roastnoun [ C ]
uk/rəʊst/us/roʊst/roast noun [ C ] (MEAT)
a large piece of roasted meat
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Savoury dishes
- baked beans
- balti
- bobotie
- bolognese
- bubble and squeak
- fish and chips
- fondue
- French toast
- fricassee
- fry-up
- omelette
- paella
- pakora
- pate
- pilau
- stew
- sticky rice
- stir-fry
- stroganoff
- sushi
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roast noun [ C ] (ENTERTAINMENT)
mainly US an event where a famous person has jokes and humorous criticisms made about them, for entertainment: