Roast | Mean of roast in English Dictionary

/ˈroʊst/

• Verb
• to cook (food such as chicken, potatoes, or beef) with dry heat in an oven or over a fire
1. He roasted the chicken.
2. The chicken is roasting in the oven.
• to dry (something, such as a bean or nut) with heat
1. We roasted the peanuts over the fire.
2. The peanuts roasted over the fire.
• to be very hot
1. We were roasting in the hot sun.
2. You must be roasting [=baking, sweltering] in that sweater.

• to criticize (someone or something) severely
1. The movie is being roasted by the critics.
• to criticize (someone who is being honored at a special event) in a friendly or joking way
1. Friends and family roasted him at his 40th birthday party.
• Noun
• a piece of meat that is roasted
1. She made a roast for dinner.
2. We're having pork roast for dinner.
• an outdoor party at which food is cooked over an open fire
1. a pig roast
• an event at which someone is honored and people tell jokes or funny stories about that person in a friendly way
1. a celebrity roast
• cooked by roasting
1. roast [=roasted] chicken/pork/potatoes