1. Cooking in fat or oil in a pan or griddle
   "She was frying eggs for breakfast";
   - sautéing

1. Cook in hot fat or oil
   "fry the pancakes"
    
2. [informal] Be excessively hot
   "If the children stay out on the beach for another hour, they'll be fried"
    
3. [informal] 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, informal], kill, preparation

Encyclopedia: Frying