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fried¹

  • /fɹaɪd/

Rhymes with -aɪd

verb

  1. participle, past simple past and past participle of fry

adjective more fried · most fried

  1. Cooked by frying.
  2. specifically, of an egg Fried with the yolk unbroken. He always ate his eggs fried, never scrambled.
  3. Cooked in a deep fryer or pressure fryer or the like after being coated (breaded) in batter; compare deep-fried. a bucket of fried chicken
  4. colloquial, of electronic equipment Broken as a result of excessive heat or an electrical surge. It looks like your motherboard is fried.
  5. slang Stoned; under the influence of drugs. Man, I got totally fried on weed at Chad's party.

    Similar: blazed, high, baked, blitzed, blown, chemically impaired, chopped, cut, drugged, drugged-out, fuckered up, fried

  6. slang Drunk; under the influence of alcohol. The police had to send a squad car / When Daddy got fried on vodka

    Similar: inebriated, toasted, Adrian Quist, adrip, aled up, all mops and brooms, arseholed, a sheet in the wind, a sheet in the wind's eye, bedrunken, befuddled, beliquored

  7. slang Extremely tired due to exertion or stress; exhausted. After nearly twelve hours at the office plus a nightmare commute home, I was fried and couldn’t think of anything but sleep.

    Similar: bushed, weary, bleareyed, bleary, bleary-eyed, bone-tired, tired out, spent, wrecked, drained, dog-tired, dog-weary

Fried²

proper noun Frieds

  1. A surname.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: cooked, deep-fried, roasted, toasted, baked, grilled, toast, meatball, burnt, busted, broken, bombing, chicken, exhausted, stir, messy

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adj cooked by frying

Españolfrito, freído, fritado
日本語油で揚げた abura de ageta, フライの furai no
中文油煎 yóujiān, 煎 jiān
Portuguêsfrito
Françaisfrit
Deutschgebraten, frittiert
Italianofritto
Ελληνικάτηγανητός tiganitós
Русскийжа́реный žárenyj
العربيةمَقْلِيّ maqliyy
עבריתמְטֻגָּן metugán

adj broken as a result of heat or electricity

Françaisgrillé
Deutschverschmort, durchgebrannt
Italianobruciato

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@misc{fried_2026,
  title = {fried},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/fried},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}