fry
/fɹaɪ/ verb B1- To cook (something) in hot fat. · I am frying the eggs.
- To cook in hot fat. · The eggs are frying.
- To suffer because of too much heat. · You'll fry if you go out in this sun with no sunblock on.
- To execute, or be executed, by the electric chair. · He's guilty of murder: he's going to fry.
- To destroy (something, usually electronic), often with excessive heat, voltage, or current. · If you apply that much voltage, you'll fry the resistor.· Taking drugs for years fried his brain.
- To make someone laugh a lot, to crack someone up. · This joke is absolutely frying me.
He/she/it fries · Past fried · Past participle fried · -ing form frying
Verb forms
- Base form
- fry
- He/she/it
- fries
- Past
- fried
- Past participle
- fried
- -ing form
- frying
Phrasal verbs and expressions
From the library
The cook threw a frying-pan after her as she went out, but it just missed her.
The order he keeps is scandalous, that’s what, and he neglects the young fry and puts all his time on those big scholars he’s getting ready for Queen’s.
Daring was the fashionable amusement among the Avonlea small fry just then.
There are numerous small fry, but few who would handle so big an affair.
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