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pan-fry

pan-fry verb: to fry in a pan with minimal oil.

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To fry in a pan with minimal oil.

Forms of pan-fry

third-person singular presentpan-fries
present participlepan-frying
past participlepan-fried
pastpan-fried
alternative formpanfry
alternative formpan fry

Questions about pan-fry

What does pan-fry mean?
Pan-fry means to fry in a pan with minimal oil.
What part of speech is pan-fry?
Pan-fry is a verb.
What is the past tense of pan-fry?
The past tense of pan-fry is pan-fried.

Words near pan-fry in the dictionary

  1. pan-en-theist
  2. pan-en-theists
  3. Pan-European
  4. pan-fried
  5. pan-fries
  6. pan-fry
  7. pan-frying
  8. pan-gender
  9. pan-gendered
  10. pan-genome
  11. Pan-German

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