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roasting

/ˈɹoʊstɪŋ/noun2 syllables

Roasting means: cooking (meat) by dry heat in an oven (usually with fat added).

What does roasting mean?1

noun

1

cooking (meat) by dry heat in an oven (usually with fat added)“the slow roasting took several hours”

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with roasting?3

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Roasting in a sentence

  • We sat around the campfire, roasting marshmallows and singing songs.CK
  • Matthew and his friends sat around the campfire, roasting marshmallows.Amastan
  • The dragon breathed fire, roasting the knight in his armour.sundown
  • The party had a bonfire for roasting marshmallows.Amastan
  • Boris was roasting marshmallows and telling us stories.Amastan
  • Fyodor sat by his fire, roasting marshmallows.Amastan
  • We sat around the campfire roasting marshmallows.Hybrid
  • The mushrooms look good for roasting.Eccles17

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Forms of roasting

as a noun

plural
roastings