Roast vs Revile - What's the difference?
roast | revile |
(transitive, or, intransitive, or, ergative) To cook food by heating in an oven or over a fire without covering, resulting in a crisp, possibly even slightly charred appearance.
To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.
* Francis Bacon
(transitive, or, intransitive, or, ergative) To process by drying through exposure to sun or artificial heat
To heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.
* Shakespeare
(figuratively) To admonish someone vigorously
(figuratively) To subject to bantering, severely criticize, sometimes as a comedy routine.
(metalworking) To dissipate by heat the volatile parts of, as ores.
(en noun)
A cut of meat suited to roasting
A meal consisting of roast foods.
The degree to which something, especially coffee, is roasted.
(Originally fraternal) A comical event where a person is subjected to verbal attack, yet may be praised by sarcasm and jokes.
having been cooked by roasting
(figuratively) subjected to roasting, bantered, severely criticized
To attack (someone) with abusive language.
* Bible, 1 Peter ii. 23
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) reproach; reviling
As verbs the difference between roast and revile
is that roast is (transitive|or|intransitive|or|ergative) to cook food by heating in an oven or over a fire without covering, resulting in a crisp, possibly even slightly charred appearance while revile is to attack (someone) with abusive language.As nouns the difference between roast and revile
is that roast is a cut of meat suited to roasting while revile is (obsolete) reproach; reviling.As an adjective roast
is having been cooked by roasting.roast
English
Verb
(en verb)- to roast meat on a spit
- to roast a potato in ashes
- In eggs boiled and roasted there is scarce difference to be discerned.
- Coffee beans need roasting before use.
- to roast chestnuts or peanuts
- roasted in wrath and fire
- I’m late home for the fourth time this week; my mate will really roast me this time.
- The class clown enjoys being roasted by mates as well as staff.
Coordinate terms
* (to cook) bake, boil, broil, fry, grill, poach, toastDerived terms
* roasting ear * roasting jackNoun
- Dark roast''' means that the coffee bean has been roasted to a higher temperature and for a longer period of time than in light '''roast .
Derived terms
* nut roastAdjective
(-)See also
* barbecue * chargrill * grill * joint * roastiesAnagrams
* English ergative verbsrevile
English
Verb
(en-verb)- who, when he was reviled , reviled not again
- And did not she herself revile me there?
Synonyms
* reproach * scold * vilify * vituperateNoun
(-)- The gracious Judge, without revile , replied. — Milton.