fried

/fɹaɪd/

fried is the simple past and past participle of fry.

Adjective

fried (comparative more fried, superlative most fried)

Cooked by frying.
(specifically) Fried with the yolk unbroken.
- He always ate his eggs fried, never scrambled.
Cooked in a deep fryer or pressure fryer or the like after being coated (breaded) in batter; compare deep-fried.
- a bucket of fried chicken
- Innawong et al. (2006) conducted experiments to study the effect of using nitrogen gas on the quality of fried chicken nuggets during pressure frying in terms of moisture retention and reduction in fat […]2009, Parameswarakuma Mallikarjunan, Michael O. Ngadi, Manjeet S. Chinnan, Breaded Fried Foods, CRC Press, →ISBN, pages 51, section 3.6.1
(colloquial) Broken as a result of excessive heat or an electrical surge.
- It looks like your motherboard is fried.
- Optics - totally fried. And let's not even talk about the power supply. You know how expensive this gear is, son?.2004 November 9, Bungie, Halo 2, Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox, level/area: The Heretic
(slang) Stoned; under the influence of drugs.
- Man, I got totally fried on weed at Chad's party.
Synonyms:

blazed, high, baked, blitzed, blown, chemically impaired, chopped, cut, drugged, drugged-out
(slang) Drunk; under the influence of alcohol.
- The police had to send a squad car / When Daddy got fried on vodka1955, Noël Coward, What's Going to Happen to the Tots?
Synonyms:

inebriated, toasted, Adrian Quist, adrip, aled up, all mops and brooms, arseholed, a sheet in the wind, a sheet in the wind's eye, bedrunken
(slang) Extremely tired due to exertion or stress; exhausted.
- After nearly twelve hours at the office plus a nightmare commute home, I was fried and couldn’t think of anything but sleep.
Synonyms:

bushed, weary, bleareyed, bleary, bleary-eyed, bone-tired, tired out, spent, wrecked, drained

Meaning of fry

Verb

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

(transitive) To cook (something) in hot fat.
- I am frying the eggs.
(intransitive) To cook in hot fat.
- The eggs are frying.
(obsolete) To simmer; to boil.
- With crackling flames a caldron fries.1697, Virgil, “The Seventh Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC
(colloquial, intransitive) To suffer because of too much heat.
- You'll fry if you go out in this sun with no sunblock on.
(US, ambitransitive, slang) To execute, or be executed, by the electric chair.
- He's guilty of murder: he's going to fry.
(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.

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Proper noun capitalized: Fried

Fried (plural Frieds)

A surname.

Synonyms of fried

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Forms of fried

Adjective
comparative	more fried
superlative	most fried
Proper noun
plural	Frieds

Phrases with fried

Words that rhyme with fried

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Questions about fried

What does fried mean?: Fried means cooked by frying.
What is fried the simple past and past participle of?: Fried is the simple past and past participle of fry.
What part of speech is fried?: Fried can be an adjective or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce fried?: Fried is pronounced /fɹaɪd/.

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