fry

1. 1.

   be excessively hot

   “If the children stay out on the beach for another hour, they'll be fried”

   Broaderheat
2. 2.

   cook on a hot surface using fat

   “fry the pancakes”

   Broadercook

   Narrowerfrizzledeep-fat-frygriddlepan-fryfrench-frystir frysaute

   cooking

3. 3.

   kill by electrocution, as in the electric chair

   “The serial killer was electrocuted”

   Synonymselectrocute

   Broaderkill

Other forms of fry

plural

fries·

past tense or participle

fried

present participle

frying·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about fry

What does fry mean?

fry means "English painter and art critic (1866-1934)". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fry?

fry has 1 syllable: fry. In IPA it is /ˈfɹaɪ/.

What is another word for fry?

Close synonyms include Roger Fry, Roger Eliot Fry, Christopher Fry, child, kid. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fry a common word?

fry is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with fry?

1 word rhymes with fry. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.