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▸ verb:  (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.
▸ verb:  To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.
▸ verb:  (transitive or intransitive or ergative) To process by drying through exposure to sun or artificial heat.
▸ verb:  To heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.
▸ verb:  (transitive, figuratively) To admonish someone vigorously.
▸ verb:  (transitive, figuratively) To subject to bantering, severely criticize, sometimes as a comedy routine.
▸ verb:  (metalworking) To dissipate the volatile parts of by heat, as ores.
▸ noun:  A piece of meat suited to roasting; meat that has been roasted.
▸ noun:  A meal consisting of roast foods.
▸ noun:  The degree to which something, especially coffee, is roasted.
▸ noun:  An instance of being severely admonished, criticized, roasted.
▸ noun:  A comical event, originally fraternal, where a person is subjected to verbal attack, yet may be praised by sarcasm and jokes.
▸ noun:  (Canada, US) A social event at which food is roasted and eaten.
▸ noun:  (slang) A creative insult as a response to something someone said.
▸ adjective:  Having been cooked by roasting.
▸ adjective:  (figuratively) Subjected to roasting; bantered; severely criticized.

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