1 [onlybeforenoun] used for roasting meat, vegetables, etc:
a roasting dish
2 (also roasting hot) so hot that you feel uncomfortable:
I'm roasting in this sweater. * a roasting hot day
noun [sing.] (informal)
IDIOMS
give sb / get a roasting to criticize sb or be criticized in an angry way
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for roasting is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is roasting a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, roasting is tagged as adjective.
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