ROASTING meaning: Cooking food using dry heat

We found 26 dictionaries that define the word roasting:

General (22 matching dictionaries)

roasting: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
roasting: Merriam-Webster
roasting: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
roasting: Collins English Dictionary
roasting: Vocabulary.com
Roasting, roasting: Wordnik
roasting: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
roasting: Wiktionary
roasting: Infoplease Dictionary
roasting: Dictionary.com
roasting: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Roasting (metallurgy), Roasting (sexual act), Roasting: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Roasting: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
roasting: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
roasting: Rhymezone
Roasting: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
roasting: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
roasting: FreeDictionary.org
roasting: Mnemonic Dictionary
roasting: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

roasting: Encyclopedia

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)

roasting: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
roasting: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
Roasting: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ adjective:  (colloquial) Very hot.
▸ noun:  The act by which something is roasted.
▸ noun:  (figurative, colloquial) A strong rebuke or reprimand (usually from the recipient's point of view).

Similar:

cooked, knock, joint, toasted, baking, broiling, scorching, burny, boiling, burning hot, more...

Opposite:

freezing, chilling, cooling, refrigerating

Types:

spit-roasting, oven-roasting, rotisserie, barbecuing, grilling, broiling, more...

Phrases:

roasting pan, roasting ears, Coffee roasting, roasting ear, pot roasting, more...

Adjectives:

preliminary, slow, good, first, previous, oven, oxidizing, careful, dead, partial, second

Colors:

brown, mahogany, chestnut, caramel, amber, more...