1 B1 informal
To cook food in an oven by roasting until it is fully ready.
"I'll roast up some vegetables to go with the grilled fish."
separable
roast up
B1 informal separable transitive
To cook something by roasting until it is fully done and ready to eat.
In plain English
To roast some food in the oven until it is fully cooked.
What does "roast up" mean?
One main meaning — here's how to use it.
Literal vs figurative
Words literally mean
To roast something upward to a finished state — fully cooked.
Actually means
To roast some food in the oven until it is fully cooked.
Usage tip
Informal, conversational cooking term. 'Up' conveys a sense of completion — that the food is being brought to a finished state. Common in casual speech and recipe blogs. Not used in formal culinary writing.
Words that pair with "roast up"
Natural word combinations native speakers use most often.
vegetables chicken potatoes garlic peppers chickpeas
How to conjugate "roast up"
The five tense forms you'll use most often.
Base
roast up
I/you/we/they
3rd person
roasts up
he/she/it
Past simple
roasted up
yesterday
Past participle
roasted up
have + pp
-ing form
roasting up
continuous
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