roast
verb (used with object)
to bake (meat or other food) uncovered, especially in an oven.
half-roasted
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a word derived from
roast.
Example Sentences
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The piano has been moved to the porch, and the menu travels memory lane with a Greek salad, saganaki, half-roasted chicken and Sagaponack steak.
From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2020
The scent of half-roasted coffee beans, normally one of my favorite smells, only stressed me out more.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2015
Fortunately, his style shines through almost every bar of such half-roasted chestnuts as Never on Sunday and I Left My Heart in San Francisco.
From Time Magazine Archive
The remains of roast partridge answer very well dressed in this way, although not so good as when the birds are in the first instance only half-roasted.
From The Book of Household Management by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton
The coffee sustained in part her reputation, being half-roasted, half-ground, half-boiled, and, I may add, half-swallowed.
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 1 July 1848 by Robert Taylor Conrad
