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🥘 Cooked again ♻️ Reused or unoriginal 🍳 To fry again
to refried

to refried

3.6
Fried something again after it was cooked before
  • verb
  • /ˌriːˈfraɪd/
translation icon : refrito
  • I refried the beans for the tacos.

Examples

  • After boiling the beans, he refried them with spices for extra flavor.

  • She refried the onions in butter to bring out a sweeter, caramelized flavor.

  • The chef refried yesterday's potatoes to make them crispy again.

  • Have you ever refried rice before?

  • To enhance the flavor, she refried the leftover beans before serving them again.

  • After preparing the meal, he refried the vegetables to ensure they were served hot.

  • They refried the chicken to restore its crispy texture for the new dish.

Compounds

refried beans
4 1.2

Dried beans that are cooked, mashed, and fried and often served with Mexican food

Surface Forms

refried past participle
refried past
refrying present participle

Morphology

refried = refry (transparent) = re + fry + ed

This is the regular past tense and past participle form of the verb 'refry'.

Etymology

Refried is the past form of refry, from re- ('again') and fry ('to cook in hot oil'), so refried means 'fried again'.