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🏹 To throw lightly 🍞 To brown by heat
to tost

to tost

9.9
To brown bread or other food over heat
  • verb
  • /tɔst/
  • Archaic
translation icon : tostado
  • He tost the bread over the fire until it was perfectly crisp.

Examples

  • The cook proudly showed the guests the evenly tost slices for breakfast.

  • The bread was tost until golden brown.

  • In old recipes, you may find instructions to have the bread tost before serving.

  • Why did you tost the bread so quickly?

  • The chef instructed the apprentice to tost the loaf for a slightly charred flavor.

  • In the fireplace, ancient cooks would tost the bread to achieve a delightful crunch.

  • Old texts recommend that the pastry be tost to enhance its aroma and taste.

Synonyms

toasted
vsto tost
14 1.0

Having a brown, crisp surface from heat, like bread

is the older past form no longer used in modern language

Surface Forms

tost infinitive
tosting present participle
tosted past
tosted past participle

Etymology

Tost is an old past form of toast, which means 'to brown' or 'to dry by heat', like bread over a fire. So if an old recipe says the bread was tost, it simply means it was toasted.