1. [verb] (transitive or intransitive or ergative) To cook food by heating in an oven or over a fire without covering, resulting in a crisp, possibly even slightly charred appearance.
2. [verb] To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.
3. [verb] (transitive or intransitive or ergative) To process by drying through exposure to sun or artificial heat
4. [verb] To heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.
5. [verb] (transitive) (figuratively) To admonish someone vigorously
6. [verb] (transitive) (figuratively) To subject to bantering, severely criticize, sometimes as a comedy routine.
7. [verb] (metalworking) To dissipate by heat the volatile parts of, as ores.
8. [noun] A cut of meat suited to roasting
9. [noun] A meal consisting of roast foods.
10. [noun] The degree to which something, especially coffee, is roasted.
11. [noun] (Originally fraternal) A comical event where a person is subjected to verbal attack, yet may be praised by sarcasm and jokes.
12. [adjective] Having been cooked by roasting
13. [adjective] (figuratively) subjected to roasting, bantered, severely criticized
14. [noun] A piece of meat roasted or for roasting and of a size for slicing into more than one portion.
15. [noun] Negative criticism.
16. [verb] Cook with dry heat, usually in an oven; 'roast the turkey'.
17. [verb] 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'.
18. [adjective] (meat) cooked by dry heat in an oven.
