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Broiled vs Roasted - What's the difference?

broiled | roasted |

As verbs the difference between broiled and roasted

is that broiled is past tense of broil while roasted is past tense of roast.

As an adjective roasted is

cooked by roasting.

broiled

English

Verb

(head)
  • (broil)

  • broil

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) broillen, . (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cook by direct, radiant heat.
  • To expose to great heat.
  • To be exposed to great heat.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Food prepared by broiling.
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to cause a rowdy disturbance; embroil
  • (obsolete) to brawl
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A brawl; a rowdy disturbance.
  • * 1819 , , Otho the Great , Act I, verses 1-2
  • So, I am safe emerged from these broils ! / Amid the wreck of thousands I am whole
  • * Burke
  • I will own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will which will cause innumerable broils , place men in what situation you please.
  • * 1840 , Robert Chambers, ?William Chambers, Chambers's Edinburgh Journal (volume 8, page 382)
  • Since the provinces declared their independence, broils and squabblings of one sort and another have greatly retarded the advancement which they might otherwise have made.

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    roasted

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Cooked by ing.
  • Synonyms

    * (l)

    Verb

    (head)
  • (roast)
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