roast

verb/roʊst/

Frequency rank: #4,962 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)

Meaning

To cook food by dry heat in an oven or over a fire.

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Example sentence

We decided to roast a whole chicken in the oven for Sunday dinner.

Synonyms & related words

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