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say it: ROH-sting
roasting is a noun meaning "cooking (meat) by dry heat in an oven (usually with fat added)". It carries one recorded sense.
cooking (meat) by dry heat in an oven (usually with fat added)
“the slow roasting took several hours”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for roasting come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.