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1. Cook in hot fat or oil
   "fry the pancakes"
    
2. Be excessively hot
   "If the children stay out on the beach for another hour, they'll be fried"
    
3. Kill by electrocution, as in the electric chair
   - electrocute

1. A young person of either sex
   - child, kid, youngster, minor, shaver, nipper, small fry, tiddler [Brit], tike, tyke, nestling, wean [UK, Ireland]
    
2. A fish that is young
   - young fish

1. English painter and art critic (1866-1934)
   - Roger Fry, Roger Eliot Fry
    
2. English dramatist noted for his comic verse dramas (born 1907)
   - Christopher Fry

Derived forms: Fries, fried, fries, frying

See also: fryer, frying

Type of: art critic, cook, dramatist, fish, heat, heat up, hot up [Brit], juvenile, juvenile person, kill, offspring, painter, playwright, young

Part of: Bloomsbury Group

Encyclopedia: Fry Fry, Seine-Maritime