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🍳 To cook in oil ⚡ To execute 🌞 To get very hot
to fry

to fry

6 3.9
Become very hot from strong sun or heat
  • verb
  • /fraɪ/
  • Informal
: freírse (al sol)
  • On the hottest days, the sun can really fry your skin if you forget to apply sunscreen.
  • fry in the sun
  • hot enough to fry
  • going to fry

They cannot take full sun that will fry their delicate little leaves.

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Examples

  • After a while, the boy went to the kitchen and began to fry bacon.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • No, my friend, I've got bigger fish to fry.

    The Nutty Professor (1996)

  • They cannot take full sun that will fry their delicate little leaves.

    Garden Answer

  • The sun quieted the dogs, sweated the people, and fried the paint on the boat.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • The sky's this thin white that fries your eyes, and the heat won't quit.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • I forgot my hat, and now the sun is starting to fry me during this long hike.

  • Without any shade, standing in direct sunlight will fry you in no time.

Synonyms

to bake
vsto fry
21 2.1

To feel very hot in strong sun or heat

is informal and focuses on being very hot from heat or sunlight
to broil
vsto fry
  • US
5 4.4

To feel very hot because of strong sun or heat

is informal and expresses very hot conditions but not necessarily extreme

Antonyms

to cool
225 1.0

To make or become less warm

to chill
45 1.0

To make food or drink cold, often in the fridge

Idioms

bigger fish to fry
  • Informal
12 6.5

To have more important things to do than this matter

other fish to fry
  • Informal
2 7.1

To have more important things to do now

to fry someone's bacon
  • Informal
1 9.9

To do a favor that helps someone in a hard situation

Phrasal Verbs

to fry up
10 2.9

Cook food in hot oil or fat

to french-fry
  • US
4 2.6

To cook food in hot oil until it becomes crisp and golden

to deep-fat-fry
1 3.3

To cook food by putting it completely in hot oil

Compounds

stir-fry
13 2.1

A dish made by quickly frying small pieces of food in a little hot oil while stirring

fish fry
  • Informal
9 2.8

A meal where people eat fried fish together, often outdoors

small fry
  • Offensive
7 6.9

People or groups seen as unimportant compared to others

fry cook
  • US
5 2.5

A person who makes food in hot oil at a restaurant or diner

fry bread
  • US
5 6.1

A flat fried bread made from wheat or corn, often served in Native American communities

small fry
  • Informal
1 7.4

Young children who are not yet adults

How Hot

to scorch
29 4.8
to fry
  • Informal
6 3.9
to heat up
75 1.0
to warm up
40 1.6

Surface Forms

fry infinitive
fried past
fried past participle
frying present participle
fries third person singular

Etymology

A helpful way to remember the informal use of fry meaning 'to become very hot' is to imagine yourself like food in a pan, 'cooking' under the strong sun, which is why people say they were 'frying' in the heat.