Meaning of roasting in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

verb

• To cook food by heating in an oven or over a fire without covering, resulting in a crisp, possibly even slightly charred appearance.

  Example: to roast meat on a spit

• To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.

  Example: to roast a potato in ashes

• To process by drying through exposure to sun or artificial heat

  Example: Coffee beans need roasting before use.

• To heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.

• To admonish someone vigorously

  Example: I’m late home for the fourth time this week; my mate will really roast me this time.

• To subject to bantering, severely criticize, sometimes as a comedy routine.

  Example: The class clown enjoys being roasted by mates as well as staff.

• To dissipate by heat the volatile parts of, as ores.

noun

• The act by which something is roasted.

• A rebuke or reprimand (usually from the recipient's point of view).

  Example: My boss gave me a roasting for last month's sales figures.

adjective

• Very hot.

  Example: The day started out cool, but by noon it was roasting.