(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.

A cut of meat suited to roasting. / A meal consisting of roast foods. / The degree to which something, especially coffee, is roasted.

Having been cooked by roasting. / (figuratively) Subjected to roasting; bantered; severely criticized.

plural of roasting

present participle of roast

(colloquial) Very hot.

The act by which something is roasted. / (colloquial) A rebuke or reprimand (usually from the recipient's point of view).

Cooked by roasting.

simple past tense and past participle of roast

plural of roast