Word Meaning

Meaning of roast

- To cook by exposure to radiant heat before a fire; as, to roast meat on a spit, or in an oven open toward the fire and having reflecting surfaces within; also, to cook in a close oven.
- To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.; as, to roast a potato in ashes.
- To dry and parch by exposure to heat; as, to roast coffee; to roast chestnuts, or peanuts.
- Hence, to heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.
- To dissipate by heat the volatile parts of, as ores.
- To banter severely.
- To cook meat, fish, etc., by heat, as before the fire or in an oven.
- To undergo the process of being roasted.
- That which is roasted; a piece of meat which has been roasted, or is suitable for being roasted.
- Roasted; as, roast beef.

Crossword clue for roast

- Bake
- Bake (beef)
- Bake (lamb)
- Bake (pork)
- Bake in oven
- Cook in an oven
- Cook in fat
- Cook in oven
- Cook meat in an oven
- Cook over fire
- Find fault with Sunday joint
- Good-natured public tease
- Knock
- Make or be very hot
- Meat dish
- Poke fun at joint
- Rats treated with nothing in Sunday joint
- Severely criticise cook in oven
- Severely criticise Sunday joint
- Sunday joint
- Swelter