Dictionary Entry
fry
fry is a 3-letter English word with 13 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To cook in a pan or on a griddle (esp. with the use of fat, butter, or olive oil) by heating over a fire; to cook in boiling lard or fat; as, to fry fish; to fry doughnuts. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
3 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 8 · 13 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To cook in a pan or on a griddle (esp. with the use of fat, butter, or olive oil) by heating over a fire; to cook in boiling lard or fat; as, to fry fish; to fry doughnuts.
- 2intransitive verb
To undergo the process of frying; to be subject to the action of heat in a frying pan, or on a griddle, or in a kettle of hot fat.
- 3intransitive verb
To simmer; to boil.
- 4intransitive verb
To undergo or cause a disturbing action accompanied with a sensation of heat.
- 5intransitive verb
To be agitated; to be greatly moved.
- 6noun
The young of any fish.
- 7noun
A swarm or crowd, especially of little fishes; young or small things in general.
- 8noun
a young person of either sex
"she writes books for children"
"they're just kids"
- 9noun
English dramatist noted for his comic verse dramas (born 1907)
- 10noun
English painter and art critic (1866-1934)
- 11verb
cook on a hot surface using fat
"fry the pancakes"
- 12verb
kill by electrocution, as in the electric chair
"The serial killer was electrocuted"
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- 13verb
be excessively hot
"If the children stay out on the beach for another hour, they'll be fried"
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