frying

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To cook (something) in hot fat.
   • I am frying the eggs.
2. (intransitive) To cook in hot fat.
   • The eggs are frying.
3. (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
4. (colloquial, intransitive) To suffer because of too much heat.
   • You'll fry if you go out in this sun with no sunblock on.
5. (US, ambitransitive, slang) To execute, or be executed, by the electric chair.
   • He's guilty of murder: he's going to fry.
6. (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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