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# fried

«fried» in Mova's school dictionary: **Fried food has been cooked in hot oil or fat** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (fried); also the past form of «fry» (fry, fries, fried, frying)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Fried food has been cooked in hot oil or fat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fried/#m1)

2) Fried is the past of «fry»: cooked in hot oil. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fried/#m2)

3) Informal: fried can mean very tired, or broken by too much heat or electricity («the computer got fried»). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fried/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and healthy-eating lessons: fried eggs, fried rice, fried chicken; fried foods are tasty but should be eaten only sometimes. Phrases: «fried egg», «fried rice», «deep-fried», «stir-fried».

### examples

- I had a fried egg on toast for breakfast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fried/#x1)
- Dad fried some onions in the pan. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fried/#x2)
- Fried chicken is crunchy outside. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fried/#x3)
- We ate stir-fried vegetables with noodles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fried/#x4)
- Too much fried food is not healthy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fried/#x5)
- The lightning fried our TV. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fried/#x6)
- My brain is fried after that test! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fried/#x7)
- Pinocchio runs the danger of being fried in a pan like a fish [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fried/#x8)

### note

Fry changes y to i: fry, fries, fried; but «frying» keeps y. «Deep-fried» = cooked covered in hot oil. Safety: frying oil is very hot; children should not fry without an adult. Not a number word.

### In the corpora

- [At a night market in Thailand a child your age buys a paper cone of fried crickets the way you might buy chips.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/290-insects-as-food-in-other-countries/0/)
- [le pain perdu ("lost bread") is French toast: old bread soaked in egg and milk and fried.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/18-food-and-drink/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fried» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fried/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.