roast

roast
n
1. bake, cook, broil, grill, barbecue; brown, toast, dry, sun, sun-dry, parch; heat, torrefy, fire, calcine; char, sear, scorch, burn, singe, scald.
2.Informal, (all often in jest) ridicule, guy, poke fun at or of, make fun of, mock, tease, twit, Inf. kid; joke, jest, banter, badinage, chaff, Inf. josh, Inf. rib, Inf. fun; taunt, jeer, Inf. rag, gibe, scoff, deride; make a laughingstock out of, haze, abuse, humiliate, embarrass, make a fool of; ride, give [s.o.] a hard time, Inf. jump on, Inf. jump all over, Sl. get on [s.o.'s] case; criticize, pick apart, pick to pieces, Inf. pick holes in; shoot down, Inf. slam, Inf. knock, Inf. pan, Sl. put down, Sl. dump on; haul or rake over the coals, attack, flay, light into, Inf. lace or tear or rip into, Sl. blast, Sl. let [s.o.] have it with both barrels; excoriate, denounce, decry, disparage, belittle, depreciate, minimize.

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