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roast
/rəʊst/ verb [I, T]Definition
› If you roast food, you cook it in an oven or over a fire, and if food roasts, it is cooked in an oven or over a fire: Roast the lamb in a hot oven for 35 minutes.
roast adjective [always before noun] › roast beef/pork(Definition of roast verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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