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roasting

[ roh-sting ]

adjective

  1. used or suitable to roast.
  2. exceedingly hot; scorching:

    a roasting July.



noun

  1. a severely critical notice or review; pan.

roasting

/ ˈəʊɪŋ /

adjective

  1. extremely hot
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. severe criticism
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Word Forms

  • DziԲ· adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of roasting1

1350–1400; Middle English (gerund); roast, -ing 1, -ing 2
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Example Sentences

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Consider roasting uncovered for at least part of the cook time.

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He acknowledges that carob "really doesn't taste like chocolate" but adds that Foreverland's fermentation and roasting process removes some of the carob flavour to get it closer to cocoa.

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I never baked mayonnaise into cakes or slathered it on chicken before roasting.

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Ricky Gervais, one of the modern masters of roasting celebrities and riffing on the macabre, has a new show called “Mortality.”

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Obama's roasting of Trump at the White House Correspondents' Dinner in 2011 is widely viewed as the moment that kickstarted Trump's decade of revenge.

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