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1. Cooking in fat or oil in a pan or griddle
   - sautéing

1. (cooking) 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
   "The serial killer was fried";
   - electrocute

Derived forms: fryings

Type of: cook, cookery, cooking, heat, heat up, hot up [Brit], kill, preparation

Encyclopedia: Frying