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roasting

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roast  (rst)
v. roast·ed, roast·ing, roasts
v.tr.
1. To cook with dry heat, as in an oven or near hot coals.
2. To dry, brown, or parch by exposing to heat.
3. To expose to great or excessive heat.
4. Metallurgy To heat (ores) in a furnace in order to dehydrate, purify, or oxidize before smelting.
5. Informal
a. To ridicule or criticize harshly.
b. To honor at or subject to a roast.
v.intr.
1. To cook food in an oven.
2. To undergo roasting.
n.
1.
a. Something roasted.
b. A cut of meat suitable or prepared for roasting.
2.
a. The act or process of roasting.
b. The state of being roasted.
3.
a. Harsh ridicule or criticism.
b. A facetious tribute, as at a banquet, in which the honoree is alternately praised and insulted.
adj.
Roasted: roast duck.

[Middle English rosten, from Old French rostir, of Germanic origin.]

roasting [ˈrəʊstɪŋ] Informal
adj
extremely hot
n
severe criticism
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.roastingroasting - cooking (meat) by dry heat in an oven (usually with fat added); "the slow roasting took several hours"
cookery, cooking, preparation - the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat; "cooking can be a great art"; "people are needed who have experience in cookery"; "he left the preparation of meals to his wife"
barbecuing - roasting a large piece of meat on a revolving spit out of doors over an open fire
basting - moistening a roast as it is cooking

roasting
noun
reprimand, dressing down (informal), chastisement, bawling-out (informal), criticism, discipline, condemnation, telling-off, castigation He was given a roasting from his boss.
adjective
blazing, baking, blistering, scorching, sizzling, sweltering, boiling hot, extremely hot Not all of Britain was roasting in the nineties today.
Translations
roasting [ˈrəʊstɪŋ]
A. ADJ
1. [chicken etc] → para asar
2. (= hot) [day, heat] → abrasador
B. N
1. (Culin) → asado m; [of coffee] → tostadura f, tueste m
2. to give sb a roasting (= criticize) → criticar a algn, censurar a algn; (= scold) → desollar vivo a algn
C. CPD roasting jack, roasting spit Nasador m
roasting [ˈrəʊstɪŋ] n
to give sb a roasting → sonner les cloches à qn
roasting
n
(lit)Braten nt
(inf: = criticism) → Verriss m; (= telling-off)Standpauke f; to give somebody a roastingjdn verreißen, jdm eine Standpauke halten
adj
(inf: = hot) days, weatherknallheiß (inf)
(Cook) → zum Braten; roasting chickenBrathähnchen nt; roasting meatBratenfleisch nt

roasting:
roasting bag
nBratschlauch m
roasting tin, roasting tray
nBräter m
roasting [ˈrəʊstɪŋ]
1. adj
a. (chicken) → da fare arrosto; (pan) → per arrosti
b. (fam) a roasting (hot) dayuna giornata torrida
2. n (fam) to give sb a roastingdare una lavata di capo a qn

roasting [ˈrəʊstɪŋ]
1. adj
a. (chicken) → da fare arrosto; (pan) → per arrosti
b. (fam) a roasting (hot) dayuna giornata torrida
2. n (fam) to give sb a roastingdare una lavata di capo a qn


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A Frenchman who had just pushed a Russian soldier away was squatting by the fire, engaged in roasting a piece of meat stuck on a ramrod.
They could get no fowls; old, purplish, stringy cocks were all they had for roasting and boiling.
On the following morning, therefore, they assembled, and decided on Van Baerle's arrest, placing the order for its execution in the hands of Master van Spennen, who, as we have seen, performed his duty like a true Hollander, and who arrested the Doctor at the very hour when the Orange party at the Hague were roasting the bleeding shreds of flesh torn from the corpses of Cornelius and John de Witt.
 
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