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ROASTING

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cooking (meat) by dry heat in an oven (usually with fat added)

Example:

the slow roasting took several hours

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("roasting" is a kind of...):

cookery; cooking; preparation (the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat)

Meronyms (parts of "roasting"):

basting (moistening a roast as it is cooking)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "roasting"):

barbecuing (roasting a large piece of meat on a revolving spit out of doors over an open fire)

Derivation:

roast (cook with dry heat, usually in an oven)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb roast

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