roast

roast is a 5-letter English word with 15 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, adjective, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 5 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 5 · 15 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. 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. transitive verb. To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.; as, to roast a potato in ashes.
3. transitive verb. To dry and parch by exposure to heat; as, to roast coffee; to roast chestnuts, or peanuts.
4. transitive verb. Hence, to heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.
5. transitive verb. To dissipate by heat the volatile parts of, as ores.
6. transitive verb. To banter severely.
7. intransitive verb. To cook meat, fish, etc., by heat, as before the fire or in an oven.
8. intransitive verb. To undergo the process of being roasted.
9. noun. That which is roasted; a piece of meat which has been roasted, or is suitable for being roasted.
10. adjective. Roasted; as, roast beef.
11. noun. negative criticism

    Synonyms: knock

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

    Synonyms: joint

13. verb. cook with dry heat, usually in an oven

    "roast the turkey"

14. verb. subject to laughter or ridicule

    "The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house"

    "The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher"

    Synonyms: blackguard, guy, rib, ridicule

15. adjective. (meat) cooked by dry heat in an oven

    Synonyms: roasted

Synonyms

knock, joint, blackguard, guy, rib, ridicule, roasted

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in roast:

astor, ratos, rotas, sorta, taros, toras

Common word forms

roasts, roasted, roaster, roasting, roastable

Words from these letters

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