[
  {
    "word": "roast",
    "phonetic": "/\u0279\u0259\u028ast/",
    "phonetics": [
      {
        "text": "/\u0279\u0259\u028ast/",
        "audio": ""
      },
      {
        "text": "/\u0279o\u028ast/",
        "audio": "https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/media/pronunciations/en/roast-us.mp3",
        "sourceUrl": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1769753",
        "license": {
          "name": "BY-SA 3.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
        }
      }
    ],
    "meanings": [
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "noun",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "A cut of meat suited to roasting",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A meal consisting of roast foods.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "The degree to which something, especially coffee, is roasted.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "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."
          },
          {
            "definition": "A comical event, originally fraternal, where a person is subjected to verbal attack, yet may be praised by sarcasm and jokes.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": []
      },
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "verb",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "To cook food by heating in an oven or over a fire without covering, resulting in a crisp, possibly even slightly charred appearance.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "to roast meat on a spit"
          },
          {
            "definition": "To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "to roast a potato in ashes"
          },
          {
            "definition": "To process by drying through exposure to sun or artificial heat",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "Coffee beans need roasting before use."
          },
          {
            "definition": "To heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To admonish someone vigorously",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "I\u2019m late home for the fourth time this week; my mate will really roast me this time."
          },
          {
            "definition": "To subject to bantering, severely criticize, sometimes as a comedy routine.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "The class clown enjoys being roasted by mates as well as staff."
          },
          {
            "definition": "To dissipate by heat the volatile parts of, as ores.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": []
      },
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "Having been cooked by roasting.",
            "synonyms": [
              "roasted"
            ],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "Subjected to roasting, bantered, severely criticized.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [
          "roasted"
        ],
        "antonyms": []
      }
    ],
    "license": {
      "name": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
      "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
    },
    "sourceUrls": [
      "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/roast"
    ]
  }
]