fry

To cook food in hot oil or fat.

• Fry the eggs in butter.
• She fried some fish for dinner.
• Do you fry your potatoes or bake them?

How to use it: fry something in something (Fry the onions in a little oil.)

Common phrases: fry an egg, fry in oil, fry until golden

To feel extremely hot or be hurt by very strong heat.

• We will fry in this heat.
• I was frying on the beach without any shade.
• Come inside before you fry out there.

How to use it: fry in something (We were frying in the afternoon sun.)

Similar words: roast, bake

Common phrases: fry in something, fry in sunlight, fry out here

To kill someone, or be killed, using an electric chair as punishment.

• The prisoner feared he would fry.
• The crowd shouted that the murderer should fry.
• They threatened to fry him if he was convicted.

Similar words: electrocute

Common phrases: fry in something, make someone fry, going to fry

One long, thin piece of potato cooked in hot oil.

• Can I have a fry?
• She dipped a fry in ketchup.
• He dropped his last fry on the floor.

Similar words: French fry, chip

Common phrases: eat a fry, crispy fry, fry with ketchup

Very young fish.

• The fry need clean water.
• Thousands of salmon fry were released into the river.
• These tiny fry hatched yesterday.

Similar words: young fish

Common phrases: salmon fry, newly hatched fry, fish fry

A long, thin piece of food other than potato, cooked in hot oil.

• Try a crispy halloumi fry.
• She dipped a zucchini fry in sauce.
• The plate held golden carrot fries.

Common phrases: halloumi fry, carrot fry, zucchini fry

A meal of foods cooked in hot fat, usually eggs, bacon, and sausages.

• We had a fry for breakfast.
• He cooked a big fry on Sunday.
• Would you like a full fry before we leave?

Similar words: fry-up, cooked breakfast

Common phrases: full fry, big fry, breakfast fry