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Noun: roasting  rowsting
  1. Cooking (meat) by dry heat in an oven (usually with fat added)
    "the slow roasting took several hours"
Verb: roast  rowst
  1. Cook with dry heat, usually in an oven
    "roast the turkey"
     
  2. Subject to laughter or ridicule
    "His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday"
    - ridicule, guy, blackguard, laugh at, jest at, rib, make fun, poke fun

Derived forms: roastings

See also: roaster

Type of: bemock, cook, cookery, cooking, mock, preparation

Encyclopedia: Roast

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