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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

reroast en · VERB

Etymology

From re- + roast.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To roast again.
    • He spent a year and a half with older survivors as a hooligan and black marketeer in the American occupation zone of Germany, living high for revenge, riding a BMW motorcycle, selling Lucky Strikes and used coffee grounds stolen from the kitchens of the American occupying troops, reroasted and repackaged for the Germans. 2009 July 11, Steven Erlanger, “After Survival, a Journey to Self-Recovery”, in New York Times:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
reroasts Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
reroasting Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
reroasted Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
reroasted Tense=Past lexicographic