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

1. Feeling uncomfortably hot
   - boiling, sweltering, baking, steaming

1. (cooking) cook with dry heat, usually in an oven
   "roast the turkey"
    
2. [informal] Subject to laughter or ridicule
   "His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday";
   - ridicule, guy, blackguard, laugh at, jest at, rib [informal], make fun, poke fun
    
3. [informal] Strongly criticize
   - slate [Brit, informal], tear to shreds [informal], slam [informal], burn [informal]

Derived forms: roastings

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

Encyclopedia: Roasting