toast 1 of 2

verb

Definition of toastnext
as in to heat
to cause to have or give off heat to a moderate degree come over and toast your toes by the fire

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toast

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noun

as in tribute

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Recent Examples of toast
Noun
How many companies that looked great in 2023 or 2024 are now just toast? — Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 20 Aug. 2026 Brunch serves up French toast, chilaquiles, eggs Benedict, omelettes, steak and eggs and quiches. — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Aug. 2026 Pair toast with eggs, peanut butter, cottage cheese, or avocado. — Brittany Poulson, Verywell Health, 19 Aug. 2026 Wolff suggests simple options like toast with peanut butter or yogurt with fruit. — Ashley Lynch, Miami Herald, 19 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for toast
Recent Examples of Synonyms for toast
  1. heat
  2. tribute
  3. warm
  4. eulogy
  5. compliment
  6. encomium
  7. praise
  8. panegyric
Verb
  • Toasting rice is the process in which uncooked grains of rice are heated in a small amount of fat, like oil or butter, before adding any liquid.
    — Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 26 Aug. 2026
  • The company’s scientists then heated this material and observed the decomposition of minerals through a process known as pyrolysis.
    — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of heat
Noun
  • Federer, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray had been on hand for Nadal’s tribute at the French Open last year.
    — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2026
  • Those emotions briefly got the best of him when the Tigers played a tribute video on the big screen.
    — Matt Reigle OutKick, FOXNews.com, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of tribute
Verb
  • Experts warn that catastrophes like this are likely to happen again because rising temperatures in the Himalayas, which are warming faster than the global average, destabilize the region's 60,000 glaciers and trigger more avalanches.
    — Brittney Melton, NPR, 27 Aug. 2026
  • And the planet continues to warm, allowing these pathogens to spread to more and more farms all over the world, including in the US.
    — Dylan Scott, Vox, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of warm
Noun
  • The new edition includes previously unseen archival photographs, a new introduction, a personal eulogy for late Smiths bassist Andy Rourke and a foreword from Oasis’ Noel Gallagher.
    — SPIN Staff, SPIN, 25 Aug. 2026
  • The book features previously-unseen archival photography, a new introduction, a personal eulogy for Johnny’s friend and the Smiths’ bassist Andy Rourke, and a foreword by Noel Gallagher.
    — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of eulogy
Noun
  • This Leather Handbag is a compliment-magnet and zips up nicely to help deter theft.
    — Carolin Lehmann, Travel + Leisure, 23 Aug. 2026
  • That is both a compliment and, depending on your expectations, a minor criticism.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 22 Aug. 2026
Definition of compliment
Noun
  • Advertisement The manosphere is drenched in blood-red carnivorous encomiums.
    — Michael Kimmel, Time, 15 Aug. 2026
  • In Italy, academics like Ettore Romagnoli organized an authoritarian spectacle to celebrate two millennia of Horace, the priest Vittorio Genovesi wrote encomiums to Italian imperial ambitions in Rome’s Mare Nostrum, and the Latinist Luigi Illuminati who penned an epic dedicated to Il Duce.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Feb. 2026
Definition of encomium
Noun
  • There has been widespread praise about the upward arc of Thieneman’s growth.
    — Dan Wiederer, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2026
  • The lawsuit says the decision was unlawful, unsupported by facts and inconsistent with the military’s past praise of Claude.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of praise
Noun
  • Founded in 1999, the website publishes reviews of new releases, re-releases, books, and concerts; articles on aspects of the recording business and the classical repertoire; and Hurwitz’s diatribes and panegyrics.
    — David Denby, New Yorker, 20 July 2025
  • For example, Kenneth Khachigian, chief speechwriter for former President Ronald Reagan, wrote a panegyric about her for The Wall Street Journal, which went so far as to compare her to the Gipper.
    — Robert Robb, CNN, 31 Oct. 2022
Definition of panegyric

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“Toast.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/toast. Accessed 2 Sep. 2026.

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