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flash-fry

flash-fry verb: to fry (food) for a short time at a high heat, typically to brown a coating without overcooking the food inside.

Verb

flash-fry (third-person singular simple present flash-fries, present participle flash-frying, simple past and past participle flash-fried)

  1. (transitive) To fry (food) for a short time at a high heat, typically to brown a coating without overcooking the food inside.

Forms of flash-fry

third-person singular presentflash-fries
present participleflash-frying
past participleflash-fried
pastflash-fried

Questions about flash-fry

What does flash-fry mean?
Flash-fry means to fry (food) for a short time at a high heat, typically to brown a coating without overcooking the food inside.
What part of speech is flash-fry?
Flash-fry is a verb.
What is the past tense of flash-fry?
The past tense of flash-fry is flash-fried.

Words near flash-fry in the dictionary

  1. flash-freezing
  2. flash-fried
  3. flash-fries
  4. flash-froze
  5. flash-frozen
  6. flash-fry
  7. flash-frying
  8. flash-lag effect
  9. flash-lag effects
  10. flash-lag illusion
  11. flash-lag illusions

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