to cook (food, esp meat) by exposing it to dry heat, e.g. in an oven or by surrounding it with hot embers
to dry and brown (something) slightly by exposure to heat
Coffee beans are roasted
to be excessively hot
to heat (ore or other inorganic material) with air to cause the removal of volatile material, oxidation, etc
to heat (somebody or something) to excess
to criticize (somebody) severely
to cook food by roasting
to be excessively hot
roaster noun
[Middle English rosten from Old French rostir, of Germanic origin]