• Roasting

    Verb

    roasting
    1. Present participle of roast

    Full definition of roasting

    Noun

    roasting

    (plural roastings)
    1. The act by which something is roasted.
      • 1885, Henry Marion Howe, Copper smelting (page 15)These elements are expelled more completely by a large number of comparatively incomplete roastings (alternated, of course, with smeltings) than by a smaller number of extremely thorough roastings...
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