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roasting

 
Noun roasting has 1 sense
  1. roasting - cooking (meat) by dry heat in an oven (usually with fat added); "the slow roasting took several hours"
    --1 is a kind of
    cooking, cookery, preparation
    --1 has part: basting
    --1 has particulars: barbecuing
    Derived form: verb roast1
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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