fried
/fɹaɪd/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.06 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
simple past and past participle of fry
adj
Cooked in a deep fryer or pressure fryer or the like after being coated (breaded) in batter; compare deep-fried.
Example Sentences
- "He always ate his eggs fried, never scrambled."
- "a bucket of fried chicken"
- "Innawong et al. (2006) conducted experiments to study the effect of using nitrogen gas on the quality of fried chicken nuggets during pressure frying in terms of moisture retention and reduction in fat […]"
- "The level of seasoning is lower when the chicken is to be open kettle fried; this is because the open kettle-fried chicken has a thicker coating of breading than chicken to be pressure fried. […] Gently shake the fry baskets several times to prevent the sticking of chicken pieces to each other, which can cause raw breading spots on the fried chicken."
- "It looks like your motherboard is fried."
- "Optics - totally fried. And let's not even talk about the power supply. You know how expensive this gear is, son?."
Usage
Inflected Forms
more fried (comparative)
most fried (superlative)
Frieds (plural)