How to pronounce "roast"

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"No one? OK, why don't you go get your gift and sit down.

So behave next year --

someone might say something nice about you."

(Laughter)

Well, as I'm describing this you,

you probably know I remember this really well.

(Laughter)

But I don't know who felt worse that day.

Was it me or the teacher?

She must have realized that she turned a team-building event

into a public roast for three six-year-olds.

And without the humor.

You know, when you see people get roasted on TV,

it was funny.

There was nothing funny about that day.

So that was one version of me,

and I would die to avoid being in that situation again --

to get rejected in public again.

That's one version.

Then fast-forward eight years.

Bill Gates came to my hometown --

Phonetic Breakdown of "roast"

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Standard Phonetic Pronunciation:

/ɹəʊst/

/ɹoʊst/

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IPA Phonetic Pronunciation:

R OW1 S T

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Definition of "roast"

Pronunciation: /ɹəʊst/

Noun

A cut of meat suited to roasting
A meal consisting of roast foods.
The degree to which something, especially coffee, is roasted.

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."
A comical event, originally fraternal, where a person is subjected to verbal attack, yet may be praised by sarcasm and jokes.

Verb

To cook food by heating in an oven or over a fire without covering, resulting in a crisp, possibly even slightly charred appearance.

Example: "to roast meat on a spit"
To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.

Example: "to roast a potato in ashes"
To process by drying through exposure to sun or artificial heat

Example: "Coffee beans need roasting before use."
To heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.
To admonish someone vigorously

Example: "I’m late home for the fourth time this week; my mate will really roast me this time."
To subject to bantering, severely criticize, sometimes as a comedy routine.

Example: "The class clown enjoys being roasted by mates as well as staff."
To dissipate by heat the volatile parts of, as ores.

Adjective

Having been cooked by roasting.

Synonyms: roasted
Subjected to roasting, bantered, severely criticized.

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