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      fry
      noun
      (usually in the plural, fries, chiefly Canada and US, cooking) A fried piece of cut potato.
      (usually in the plural, fries, US, cooking) A lamb or calf testicle.
      (Ireland, British, cooking) A meal of fried sausages, bacon, eggs, etc.
      (Australia, New Zealand, cooking) The liver of a lamb.
      Young fish; fishlings.
      A kind of sieve.
      A drain, usually made of brushwood.
      A surname.
      (now chiefly UK dialectal) Offspring; progeny; children; brood.
      (UK dialectal) The spawn of frogs.
      (colloquial, archaic) A state of excitement.
      (archaic) A swarm, especially of something small.
      (historical) Initialism of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. [Former official name of Serbia and Montenegro: a former country existing in Southeast Europe on the Balkan Peninsula from 1992 through 2006, composed of the modern states of Serbia and Montenegro; a rump state of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, which changed its official name to the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro in 2003.]
      verb
      (transitive) To cook (something) in hot fat.
      (intransitive) To cook in hot fat.
      A method of cooking food.
      (chiefly US, ambitransitive, slang) To execute, or be executed, by the electric chair.
      (transitive, informal) To destroy (something, usually electronic), often with excessive heat, voltage, or current.
      (intransitive, colloquial) To suffer because of too much heat.
      To affect or be affected by extreme heat or current.
      (transitive, dialectal) To make a brushwood drain.
      (obsolete) To simmer; to boil.
      Roots
      frigofry- · Latin · roast, fry
      Synonyms for fry
      bakevroastnbroilnfrizzlevcookngriddlenalevingrillnbraisevpannparboilvcasserolenfingerlingnsimmervsearv
      Words related to fry
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