to cook by exposing to dry heat (as in an oven or before a fire) or by surrounding with hot embers, sand, or stones roast a potato in ashes
dry and parch by exposure to heat roast coffee beans
to cook with dry heat [v ROASTED, ROASTING, ROASTS]
heat (inorganic material) with access of air and without fusing to effect change (as expulsion of volatile matter, oxidation, or removal of sulfur from sulfide ores)
heat to excess roasted by the summer sun
subject to severe criticism or ridicule films have been roasted by most critics H. J. Seldes