to bake (meat or other food) uncovered, esp. in an oven.

to cook (meat or other food) by direct exposure to dry heat, as on a spit.

to brown, dry, or parch by exposure to heat, as coffee beans.

to cook or heat by embedding in hot coals, embers, etc.

to roast chestnuts.

to heat excessively

The summer sun has been roasting the entire countryside.

Metallurgy . to heat (ore or the like) in air in order to oxidize it.

to warm at a hot fire

She roasted her hands over the fire.

Informal . to ridicule or criticize severely or mercilessly.

to honor with or subject to a roast

Friends roasted the star at a charity dinner.

to roast meat or other food.

to undergo the process of becoming roasted.

roasted meat or a piece of roasted meat, as a piece of beef or veal of a quantity and shape for slicing into more than one portion.

a piece of meat for roasting.

something that is roasted.

the act or process of roasting.

Informal . severe criticism.

a facetious ceremonial tribute, usually concluding a banquet, in which the guest of honor is both praised and good-naturedly insulted in a succession of speeches by friends and acquaintances.

an outdoor get-together, as a picnic or barbecue, at which food is roasted and eaten

a weenie roast.

roasted

roast beef.

verb

bake , broil , swelter , blister , drub , excoriate , flay , lash , rip into , scarify , scathe , scorch , score , scourge , slap , slash , (colloq.) banter , banter , burn , cook , criticize , fry , grill , lambaste , lampoon , parch , razz , ridicule , torrefy