Roast : v. tr. (word coming from to roast). Burn, cook.
Quote from the French writer Louis-Ferdinand Destouches dit Céline (1894-1961) “Alcohol was eating their livers… The sun cracked their kidneys… The crabs stuck to their hair… and eczema to the skin of their stomachs. The light would end up roustiller their retina ”in Journey to the End of the Night .
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