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adjective

Definition of roastingnext
as in boiling
having a notably high temperature turn on the air conditioner—the house is roasting today!

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roasting

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verb

present participle of roast
as in teasing
to make fun of in a good-natured way playfully roasting their mother for her choice of hat

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for roasting
  1. boiling
  2. teasing
  3. searing
  4. burning
  5. joking
  6. hot
Adjective
  • One idea is that about a million years after the Big Bang, the universe cooled and underwent a phase transition, an event similar to how boiling water turns liquid into gas.
    Yasemin Saplakoglu, Scientific American, 3 Mar. 2020
  • If candy is still stuck on, pour more boiling water over whatever hasn’t come clean.
    Washington Post, Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2019
Definition of boiling
Verb
  • If that’s not disappointing enough, Google is also now teasing that Android 16 will start doing the developer rounds much earlier than usual, which will raise the question as to how Samsung can catch up, given its Android 15 is behind.
    Zak Doffman, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
  • All this music Offset has been teasing could be for the follow-up to his 2023 LP Set It Off.
    Angel Diaz, Billboard, 3 Oct. 2024
Definition of teasing
Adjective
  • This searing manual deconstructs the subgenre and the process that goes into contributing to it, bringing the study thereof into a whole new era of experimentation and boundary dissolution.
    Tyler Thier, JSTOR Daily, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Tarantula hawk wasp The tarantula hawk wasp's sting is often described as a searing electric shock that can incapacitate its victim temporarily.
    Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 25 Sep. 2024
Definition of searing
Adjective
  • At private equity firm TPG, global head of human resources Anna Edwin poised one of the most burning questions for business leaders in thinking through their future talent strategies.
    Ryan Hogg, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Social media star Hannah Neeleman and her husband Daniel Neeleman are answering fans' most burning question.
    Charmaine Patterson, Peoplemag, 30 July 2024
Definition of burning
Verb
  • The caption read in joking reference to the upcoming spooky holiday.
    Escher Walcott, People.com, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Of course, Lowe was only joking.
    David Chiu, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2024
Definition of joking
Adjective
  • Residents were also instructed to clean and scrub any containers with hot soapy water or bleach to remove any Aedes aegypti eggs and leave them to dry for at least a day.
    Nollyanne Delacruz, The Mercury News, 16 Nov. 2024
  • That's a bit hotter than the 2.4% annual rate in September, which was the slowest pace since President Joe Biden’s first full month in office.
    Rob Wile, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
Definition of hot
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