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toast1
 
PRONUNCIATION:  tst
VERB:Inflected forms: toast·ed, toast·ing, toasts
TRANSITIVE VERB:1. To heat and brown (bread, for example) by placing in a toaster or an oven or close to a fire. 2. To warm thoroughly, as before a fire: toast one's feet.
INTRANSITIVE VERB: To become toasted: This bread toasts well.
NOUN:1. Sliced bread heated and browned. 2. Slang One that is doomed, in trouble, or unworthy of further consideration.
ETYMOLOGY:Middle English tosten, from Old French toster, from Vulgar Latin *tostre, frequentative of Latin torrre, to parch, burn. See ters- in Appendix I.
 
 
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