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Broil and Roast Definitions

Broil

To cook by direct radiant heat, as over a grill or under an electric element.

Roast

To cook with dry heat, as in an oven or near hot coals.

Broil

To expose to great heat.

Roast

To dry, brown, or parch by exposing to heat.

Broil

To be exposed to great heat.
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Roast

To expose to great or excessive heat.

Broil

To engage in a rowdy argument.

Roast

(Metallurgy) To heat (ores) in a furnace in order to dehydrate, purify, or oxidize before smelting.

Broil

The act of broiling or the condition of being broiled.

Roast

To ridicule or criticize harshly.
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Broil

Food, especially meat, that is broiled.

Roast

To honor at or subject to a roast.

Broil

A rowdy argument.

Roast

To cook food in an oven.

Broil

To cook by direct, radiant heat.

Roast

To undergo roasting.

Broil

To expose to great heat.

Roast

Something roasted.

Broil

To be exposed to great heat.

Roast

A cut of meat suitable or prepared for roasting.

Broil

(transitive) To cause a rowdy disturbance; embroil.

Roast

The act or process of roasting.

Broil

To brawl.

Roast

The state of being roasted.

Broil

Food prepared by broiling.

Roast

Harsh ridicule or criticism.

Broil

(archaic) A brawl; a rowdy disturbance.
Come to broils

Roast

A facetious tribute, as at a banquet, in which the honoree is alternately praised and insulted.

Broil

A tumult; a noisy quarrel; a disturbance; a brawl; contention; discord, either between individuals or in the state.
I will own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please.

Roast

Roasted
Roast duck.

Broil

To cook by direct exposure to heat over a fire, esp. upon a gridiron over coals.

Roast

To cook food by heating in an oven or over a fire without covering, resulting in a crisp, possibly even slightly charred appearance.
To roast meat on a spit

Broil

To subject to great (commonly direct) heat.

Roast

To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.
To roast a potato in ashes

Broil

To be subjected to the action of heat, as meat over the fire; to be greatly heated, or to be made uncomfortable with heat.
The planets and comets had been broiling in the sun.

Roast

To process by drying through exposure to sun or artificial heat.
Coffee beans need roasting before use.
To roast chestnuts or peanuts

Broil

Cooking by direct exposure to radiant heat (as over a fire or under a grill)

Roast

To heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.

Broil

Cook under a broiler;
Broil fish

Roast

To admonish someone vigorously.
I'm late home for the fourth time this week; my mate will really roast me this time.

Broil

Heat by a natural force;
The sun broils the valley in the summer

Roast

To subject to bantering, severely criticize, sometimes as a comedy routine.
The class clown enjoys being roasted by mates as well as staff.

Roast

(metalworking) To dissipate the volatile parts of by heat, as ores.

Roast

A cut of meat suited to roasting; meat that has been roasted.
Serve the roast with gravy and mashed potatoes.

Roast

A meal consisting of roast foods.
Come over this weekend for Sunday roast.

Roast

The degree to which something, especially coffee, is roasted.
Dark roast means that the coffee bean has been roasted to a higher temperature and for a longer period of time than in light roast.

Roast

An instance of being severely admonished, criticized, roasted.

Roast

A comical event, originally fraternal, where a person is subjected to verbal attack, yet may be praised by sarcasm and jokes.

Roast

(North America) A social event at which food is roasted and eaten.
On Memorial Day we hosted a wiener roast in the backyard.

Roast

(slang) A creative insult as a response to something someone said.

Roast

Having been cooked by roasting.

Roast

(figuratively) Subjected to roasting; bantered; severely criticized. en

Roast

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.

Roast

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.

Roast

To dry and parch by exposure to heat; as, to roast coffee; to roast chestnuts, or peanuts.

Roast

Hence, to heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.

Roast

To dissipate by heat the volatile parts of, as ores.

Roast

To banter severely.

Roast

To cook meat, fish, etc., by heat, as before the fire or in an oven.
He could roast, and seethe, and broil, and fry.

Roast

To undergo the process of being roasted.

Roast

That which is roasted; a piece of meat which has been roasted, or is suitable for being roasted.
A fat swan loved he best of any roost [roast].

Roast

Roasted; as, roast beef.

Roast

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

Roast

Negative criticism

Roast

Cook with dry heat, usually in an oven;
Roast the turkey

Roast

Subject to laughter or ridicule;
The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house
The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher
His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday

Roast

(of meat) cooked by dry heat in an oven

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