fry

🇺🇸 /fraɪ/ 🇬🇧 /fraɪ/
Frequency
Difficulty
Tags TOP10000Oxford3000CEFR-B1
verb
B1

to cook in hot oil or fat

Fry the eggs in a little oil until they are cooked.

R

to get burned by the sun

If you stay too long in the sun, you will fry and get a bad sunburn.

noun
R

very small young fish

The pond was full of tiny fry swimming near the surface.

R

a piece of potato fried in oil

I like to eat my fry with salt and ketchup.

translation

v. to cook in hot oil or fat; to get burned by the sun
n. very small young fish; a piece of potato fried in oil

Word Forms

Plural fries
Progressive frying
Past fried
Perfect fried
3rd Present fries