ROAST

noun

1. A cut of meat suited to roasting
2. A meal consisting of roast foods.
3. The degree to which something, especially coffee, is roasted.

verb

1. To cook food by heating in an oven or over a fire without covering, resulting in a crisp, possibly even slightly charred appearance.
2. To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.
3. To process by drying through exposure to sun or artificial heat

adjective

1. Having been cooked by roasting.
2. Subjected to roasting, bantered, severely criticized.