- roasting - cooking (meat) by dry heat in an oven (usually with fat added); "the slow roasting took several hours"
--1 is a kind of cooking, cookery, preparation
--1 has part: basting
--1 has particulars: barbecuingDerived form: verb roast1
- roast - cook with dry heat, usually in an oven; "roast the turkey"
--1 is one way to cook
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun roast1, noun roaster4, noun roaster2, noun roasting1
The chefs roast the vegetables
- ridicule, roast, guy, blackguard, laugh at, jest at, rib, make fun, poke fun - subject to laughter or ridicule; "The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house"; "The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher"; "His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday"
--2 is one way to mock, bemock
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun roast2
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody