roast up
B1 informal separable transitive
In simple words
To roast some food in the oven until it is fully cooked.
Literal meaning: To roast something upward to a finished state — fully cooked.
Meanings
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."
Grammar: separable
Usage notes
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.
Commonly used with
vegetables chicken potatoes garlic peppers chickpeas
Forms
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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