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roast

/ɹoʊst/noun, verb, adjective1 syllable

Roast means: subject to laughter or ridicule.

Synonyms for roast13

noun, as in a piece of meat roasted or for roasting and of a size for slicing into more than one portion

joint

noun, as in negative criticism

knock

verb, as in subject to laughter or ridicule

ridicule, guy, blackguard, laugh at, jest at, rib, make fun, poke fun

adjective, as in (meat) cooked by dry heat in an oven

roasted, cooked

also used for roast

burn

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What does roast mean?5

verb

1

subject to laughter or ridicule“The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house”

2

cook with dry heat, usually in an oven“roast the turkey”

adjective

1

(meat) cooked by dry heat in an oven

noun

1

a piece of meat roasted or for roasting and of a size for slicing into more than one portion

2

negative criticism

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with roast?9

three syllables

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Roast in a sentence

  • Foxes eat chicken, but they prefer to dine upon roast beef.DJ_Saidez
  • I cannot even boil water, much less roast a turkey.CM
  • Let the juice run out, then place the roast on a dish.unknown
  • Roast chicken is one of my favorite dishes.CM
  • A nice roast chicken is one of my favorite dishes.CM
  • The host usually carves the roast at the table.unknown
  • I suddenly got a craving to eat some crisp roast chicken skin.CM
  • They had lit a fire fit to roast an ox.fcbond

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Forms of roast

as a noun

plural
roasts

as a verb

past tense
roasted
present participle
roasting
third-person singular
roasts
past participle
roasted