ROASTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does roasted mean? 

• ROASTED (adjective)
  The adjective ROASTED has 1 sense:

1. (meat) cooked by dry heat in an oven

  Familiarity information: ROASTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROASTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(meat) cooked by dry heat in an oven

Synonyms:

roast; roasted

Similar:

cooked (having been prepared for eating by the application of heat)

 Context examples 

Yes, said the cook, and weighed her in his hand; she has spared no trouble to fatten herself, and has been waiting to be roasted long enough.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The chocolate we tend to eat, on the other hand, is made from cocoa beans that are roasted and processed in various other ways, and then combined with ingredients like whole milk.

(Can Chocolate Really Be Good for You?, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

With nuts, that includes whether they are raw, roasted, or ground, and even how well they are chewed.

(Going Nuts Over Calories, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

The venison was roasted to a turn—and everybody said they never saw so fat a haunch.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

It was all rocky: however I got many birds’ eggs; and, striking fire, I kindled some heath and dry sea-weed, by which I roasted my eggs.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Quite an elegant dish of fish; the kidney-end of a loin of veal, roasted; fried sausage-meat; a partridge, and a pudding.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I am quite roasted.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

When night came again I found, with pleasure, that the fire gave light as well as heat and that the discovery of this element was useful to me in my food, for I found some of the offals that the travellers had left had been roasted, and tasted much more savoury than the berries I gathered from the trees.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I dined on what they called "robber steak"—bits of bacon, onion, and beef, seasoned with red pepper, and strung on sticks and roasted over the fire, in the simple style of the London cat's meat!

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Roasted peacocks, with the feathers all carefully replaced, so that the bird lay upon the dish even as it had strutted in life, boars' heads with the tusks gilded and the mouth lined with silver foil, jellies in the shape of the Twelve Apostles, and a great pasty which formed an exact model of the king's new castle at Windsor—these were a few of the strange dishes which faced him.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)