fry
A method of cooking foodA method of cooking food.: To cook (something) in hot fat.
Meaning
8 sensesA method of cooking food.
(transitive)To cook (something) in hot fat.
I am frying the eggs.
braten
жа́ритьžáritʹ, поджа́ритьpodžáritʹ
сма́житиsmážyty, підсма́житиpidsmážyty
cook in hot fat or oil
(intransitive)To cook in hot fat.
The eggs are frying.
braten
be excessively hot
To affect or be affected by extreme heat or current.
(colloquial, intransitive)To suffer because of too much heat.
You'll fry if you go out in this sun with no sunblock on.
kochen
(US, ambitransitive, slang)To execute, or be executed, by the electric chair.
He's guilty of murder: he's going to fry.
grillen
kill by electrocution, as in the electric chair
(informal, transitive)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.
(slang, transitive)To entertain (a person) greatly; to make to laugh thoroughly.
This joke is absolutely frying me.
(dialectal, transitive)To make a brushwood drain.
A method of cooking food.
(obsolete)To simmer; to boil.
Examples
555 sentencesTom hit Mary with a frying pan.
Том ударив Мері сковородкою. — deniko
Why did you fry only one egg?
Чому ти підсмажив лише одне яйце? — deniko
ruПочему ты пожарил только одно яйцо? — marafon
I want a cheeseburger, a coke and some fries.
Я хочу чізбургер, колу та картоплю фрі. — deniko
ruЯ хочу чизбургер, колу и картошку фри. — odexed
We have other fish to fry.
У нас є важливіші справи. — deniko
ruУ нас есть дела поважнее. — marafon
Tom ordered an open-faced sandwich with a side of fries.
Том замовив бутерброд і картоплю фрі. — oromashka · CC BY 2.0 FR
Translations
9 languagesBy meaning 1
By meaning 1
By meaning 3
Origin
Inherited from Middle English fryen, borrowed from Old French frire, from Latin frīgō. CogInherited from Middle English fryen, borrowed from Old French frire, from Latin frīgō. Cognate with Ancient Greek φρύγω (phrúgō, “to roast, bake”), Sanskrit भृज्जति (bhṛjjati, “to roast, grill, fry”). Replaced native Middle English hirsten, from Old English hierstan (“to fry”). Related to bhurji, bhujia (“fried Indian snacks”).
Dialectal, of obscure origin. Perhaps related to or a corruption of frith (“a wood, forest", also "brushwood, wattle”), from Middle English fryth, frith (“forest, woodland, a fence of brush or wattle, hedge”).
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Forms
fries, frying, fried, friedSynonyms
1 synonyms- kill by electrocution, as in the electric chair:electrocute
Word family
26 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
Collocations
10 patterns- frying pan
- eat fried rice
- fried an an
- fish to fry
- fried rice
- fried chicken
- to eat fried
- eat fried
- to fry an
- like fried