Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun roasting

1 sense of roasting

Sense 1
roasting -- (cooking (meat) by dry heat in an oven (usually with fat added); "the slow roasting took several hours")
       => cooking, cookery, preparation -- (the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat; "cooking can be a great art"; "people are needed who have experience in cookery"; "he left the preparation of meals to his wife")

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb roast

2 senses of roast

Sense 1
roast -- (cook with dry heat, usually in an oven; "roast the turkey")
       => cook -- (transform and make suitable for consumption by heating; "These potatoes have to cook for 20 minutes")

Sense 2
ridicule, roast, guy, blackguard, laugh at, jest at, rib, make fun, poke fun -- (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")
       => mock, bemock -- (treat with contempt; "The new constitution mocks all democratic principles")