roast

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• intransitive verb To cook with dry heat, as in an oven or near hot coals.
• intransitive verb To dry, brown, or parch by exposing to heat.
• intransitive verb To expose to great or excessive heat.
• intransitive verb Metallurgy To heat (ores) in a furnace in order to dehydrate, purify, or oxidize before smelting.
• intransitive verb To ridicule or criticize harshly.
• intransitive verb To honor at or subject to a roast.
• intransitive verb To cook food in an oven.
• intransitive verb To undergo roasting.
• noun Something roasted.
• noun A cut of meat suitable or prepared for roasting.
• noun The act or process of roasting.
• noun The state of being roasted.
• noun Harsh ridicule or criticism.
• noun A facetious tribute, as at a banquet, in which the honoree is alternately praised and insulted.
• adjective Roasted.

from The Century Dictionary.

• Roasted: as, roast beef; roast meat.
• noun That which is roasted, specifically a piece of beef; that part of a slaughtered animal which is selected for roasting, as a sirloin of beef or a shoulder of mutton.
• To cook, dress, or prepare (meats) for eating, originally on a grate or gridiron over or beneath a fire (broiling), but now by exposure to the direct action of dry heat (toasting).
• To heat to excess; heat violently.
• To dry and parch by exposure to heat: as, to roast coffee.
• In metallurgy, to heat with access of air. ; ;
• To expose (a person) to scathing ridicule or jesting, as by a company of persons, or for the amusement of a company.
• To perform the act of cooking by the direct action of dry heat.
• To become roasted or fit for eating by exposure to fire; hence, to be overheated or parched.
• In agriculture, in the process of bare-fallowing, to subject (the soil) to the full force of the sun in order to kill the weeds.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• intransitive verb To cook meat, fish, etc., by heat, as before the fire or in an oven.
• intransitive verb To undergo the process of being roasted.
• transitive verb To cook by exposure to radiant heat before a fire; ; also, to cook in a close oven.
• transitive verb To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc..
• transitive verb To dry and parch by exposure to heat
• transitive verb Hence, to heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.
• transitive verb (Metal.) To dissipate by heat the volatile parts of, as ores.
• transitive verb colloq. To banter severely.
• noun That which is roasted; a piece of meat which has been roasted, or is suitable for being roasted.
• noun to be at the head of affairs.
• adjective Roasted.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• verb To cook food by heating in an oven or over fire without covering, resulting in a crisp, possibly even slightly charred appearance to the food.
• verb To process by drying through exposure to sun or artificial heat
• verb transitive, figuratively To admonish someone vigorously
• verb transitive, figuratively To subject to bantering, severely criticize, sometimes as a comedy routine.
• noun A cut of meat suited to roasting
• noun A meal consisting of roast foods.
• noun A comical event where a person is subjected to verbal attack, yet may be praised by sarcasm and jokes.
• adjective having been cooked by roasting
• adjective figuratively subjected to roasting, bantered, severely criticized

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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