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  • verb Present participle of overroast.

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Examples

  • He roasts to what he describes as a medium roast - a level he says best preserves the individual characteristics of the beans as overroasting masks a coffee's flavour.

    Stuff.co.nz - Stuff 2010

  • The least trifle, such as the overroasting of a leg of mutton, would strangely disturb and ruffle his temper. "

    A History of the Four Georges, Volume I (of 4) Justin McCarthy 1871

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