roast-v; 2 Senses

Sense Number 1: Cook with dry heat, usually in an oven.

Examples:
Roast the turkey for several hours.
We shouldn't roast the duck - not yet.

Mappings:
VerbNet: cooking-45.3,preparing-26.3-2
FrameNet: Apply_heat
PropBank: NP
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1

Sense Number 2: Subject to laughter or ridicule.

Examples:
The satirists roasted the plans for a new opera house.
Students roasted the inexperienced teacher.
His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: NP
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 2