- present participle of roast.
roasting
Americanadjective
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used or suitable to roast.
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exceedingly hot; scorching.
a roasting July.
noun
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roastings
plural
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of roasting
1350–1400; Middle English (gerund); see roast, -ing 1, -ing 2
Example Sentences
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But when I want depth, sweetness, browning and the kind of flavor that tastes like something has been cooking much longer than it actually has, I start by roasting.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
By Monday, the conversation had crossed over from critical posts on social media to Riley’s coaching peers roasting USC, starting with his alma mater.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
Another reason to own energy stocks may be to help compensate you for global roasting.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
Much like the players, Berly Nelson felt like he was roasting in the sun at Lumen Field.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
He gazed into the flames, a spit of darkening meat roasting there.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
The image, an immediate Instagram hit, subjected him to one of Twitter’s great roastings, and The Cut declared him a “fancy man.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 26, 2020
It is also, in among the drubbings and the roastings, an unlikely good-news story.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 14, 2011
But WPB tried to forestall the inevitable by cutting purchases at the source: roastings were curtailed to 75% of last year's, then 65%.
From Time Magazine Archive
Grok's regular roastings of clueless tech reporters has attracted 150,000 readers.
From Time Magazine Archive
The crushings are then roasted in the ordinary way in a reverberatory furnace and the whole of the roastings are passed through the machine we have just described.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 620, November 19,1887 by Various
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