Definitions for roasting



Overview of noun roasting

The noun roasting has 1 senses? (no senses from tagged texts)
1. roasting

(cooking (meat) by dry heat in an oven (usually with fat added); "the slow roasting took several hours")


Overview of verb roast

The verb roast has 2 senses? (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (4) roast

(cook with dry heat, usually in an oven; "roast the turkey")

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")

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