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roasting up

roasting up is the present participle of roast up.

Meaning of roast up

Verb

roast up (third-person singular simple present roasts up, present participle roasting up, simple past and past participle roasted up)

  1. (slang, transitive) To make fun of; ridicule severely or insultingly.
    • She wouldn't follow instructions so they roasted her up coming off the plane.
    Synonyms:
    slag off
  2. (transitive) To cook by roasting.
    • For Thanksgiving, I'll roast up a turkey.
  3. (transitive) To roast fully or completely.
    • Then I took another big cast iron pot and put it on the fire. Into this I put some unground cholai and roasted it up good.2011, Joseph S. Alter, Knowing Dil Das: Stories of a Himalayan Hunter, page 119

Questions about roasting up

What is roasting up the present participle of?
Roasting up is the present participle of roast up.

Words near roasting up in the dictionary

  1. roasting jacks
  2. roasting pan
  3. roasting pans
  4. roasting tin
  5. roasting tins
  6. roasting up
  7. roastingly
  8. roastings
  9. roastmaster
  10. roastmasters
  11. roastnear

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