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Roasted   /rˈoʊstəd/  /rˈoʊstɪd/   Listen
verb
Roast  v. t.  (past & past part. roasted; pres. part. roasting)  
1.
To cook by exposure to radiant heat before a fire; as, to roast meat on a spit, or in an oven open toward the fire and having reflecting surfaces within; also, to cook in a close oven.
2.
To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.; as, to roast a potato in ashes. "In eggs boiled and roasted there is scarce difference to be discerned."
3.
To dry and parch by exposure to heat; as, to roast coffee; to roast chestnuts, or peanuts.
4.
Hence, to heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn. "Roasted in wrath and fire."
5.
(Metal.) To dissipate by heat the volatile parts of, as ores.
6.
To banter severely. (Colloq.)



Roast  v. i.  
1.
To cook meat, fish, etc., by heat, as before the fire or in an oven. "He could roast, and seethe, and broil, and fry."
2.
To undergo the process of being roasted.






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"Roasted" Quotes from Famous Books



... were a little discouraged, but soon they brought in a great tray containing two dozen nicely roasted quail on toast. ...
— Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz • L. Frank Baum.

... memory is that the Swiss Guard at the Louvre surreptitiously acquired a "quartier" of the dismembered body of the regicide and roasted it in a fire set alight beneath the balcony of Marie de Medici as an indication of their faithfulness ...
— Royal Palaces and Parks of France • Milburg Francisco Mansfield

... his ways and roasted it on a rod; and when the blood bubbled out he laid his finger thereon to essay it, if it were fully done; and then he set his finger in his mouth, and lo, when the heart-blood of the worm touched his tongue, straightway he knew the voice of all fowls, ...
— The Story of the Volsungs, (Volsunga Saga) - With Excerpts from the Poetic Edda • Anonymous

... You are married, my dear Reginald?" Aristide leaped, in his unexpected fashion, from his chair and almost embraced him. "Ah, but you are happy, you are lucky. It was always like that. You open your mouth and the larks fall ready roasted into it! My congratulations. And she is here, in this hotel, your wife? Tell me ...
— The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol • William J. Locke

... chickens—was already achieving the third—a crisply browned bird, fresh from the spit, fragrant and smoking hot. At intervals he buttered great slices of rye bread, or disposed of an entire young potato, washing it down with a goblet of red wine, but always he returned to the rich roasted fowl which he held, still impaled upon its spit, and which he carved as he ate, wings, legs, breast falling in steaming flakes under his ...
— Barbarians • Robert W. Chambers


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