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roast

 
Adjective roast has 1 sense
  1. roast, roasted - (of meat) cooked by dry heat in an oven
    Antonym: raw (indirect, via cooked)
Noun roast has 2 senses
  1. roast, joint - a piece of meat roasted or for roasting and of a size for slicing into more than one portion
    --1 is a kind of cut, cut of meat
    --1 has particulars:
     blade roast; pot roast; rib roast, standing rib roast; top round; rump roast; beef roast, roast beef; veal roast, roast veal; lamb roast, roast lamb; pork roast, roast pork
    Derived form: verb roast1
  2. knock, roast - negative criticism
    --2 is a kind of criticism, critique
    Derived form: verb roast2
Verb roast has 2 senses
  1. roast - cook with dry heat, usually in an oven; "roast the turkey"
    --1 is one way to
    cook
    Derived forms: noun roast1, noun roaster4, noun roaster2, noun roasting1
    Sample sentence:
    The chefs roast the vegetables
  2. ridicule, roast, guy, blackguard, laugh at, jest at, rib, make fun, poke fun - subject to laughter or ridicule; "The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house"; "The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher"; "His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday"
    --2 is one way to mock, bemock
    Derived form: noun roast2
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody
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