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fried

adjective
\ ˈfrīd How to pronounce fried (audio) \

Definition of fried

1 : cooked in hot oil or butter : cooked by frying fried eggs fried chicken fried dough
2 : damaged or destroyed by an electrical surge or malfunction The man behind the counter hooked up my computer to another machine and then gave me the bad news. "I'm afraid your hard drive is fried," the technician said.— Tom McNichol

3 US, informal

a : intoxicated, high … too fried on crystal meth to be gambling on a game of pool, but doing it nonetheless.— Joseph Wambaugh …what about that time you got fried at the frat house after the big game against State and the judge fined you $50 and costs for dropping quarts of beer in paper bags out the second-floor window?— Russell Baker
b : mentally exhausted At dinner after the book signing, he's fried, barely able to converse.— Rick Martin After spending about 14 hours on ESPN Radio, SportsCenter and espn.com, Gammons was completely fried.— Rich Eisen

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Synonyms & Antonyms for fried

Synonyms

besotted, blasted [slang], blind, blitzed [slang], blotto [slang], bombed, boozy, canned [slang], cockeyed, crocked, drunk, drunken, gassed, hammered [slang], high, impaired, inebriate, inebriated, intoxicated, juiced [slang], lit, lit up, loaded [slang], looped, oiled [slang], pickled, pie-eyed, plastered, potted [slang], ripped [slang], sloshed [slang], smashed [slang], sottish, soused, sozzled, squiffed (or squiffy), stewed, stiff, stinking [slang], stoned, tanked [slang], tiddly [chiefly British], tight, tipsy, wasted [slang], wet, wiped out [slang]

Antonyms

sober, straight

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Examples of fried in a Sentence

Sorry, I'm just fried today. grew up in a family in which Dad got fried on every weekend and holiday

Recent Examples on the Web

The menu includes steamed rice noodle with shredded duck, fried and baked dim sum, pickled chicken feet, beef stomach and mushroom in XO sauce, and bacon and asparagus fried rice. Hadley Tomicki, Los Angeles Times, "Where’s the beef? It’s at American Beauty in Venice," 10 Sep. 2019 Popeyes’s newest menu addition is based on a breaded and fried chicken cutlet set on a brioche bun with pickle slices and regular or spicy mayonnaise. BostonGlobe.com, "Recipe: While the fast food giants are duking it out over chicken sandwiches, we’re making our own - The Boston Globe," 10 Sep. 2019 The specialties are towering constructs featuring meal-size portions of fried chicken breast, dressed up in a variety of flavors. al, "The other new biscuit in town: Maple Street hits Mobile," 6 Sep. 2019 One of the last surviving house bars in Wyandotte, Frank's has been painstakingly preparing its fried perch the exact same way for at least 80 years, but probably closer to 100. Mark Kurlyandchik, Detroit Free Press, "These are 9 definitive Downriver dining destinations," 6 Sep. 2019 Fans loved her fiery oxtail curry, eclectic drinks menu and what would become her signature dish: crunchy fried kale and candied bacon dressed in fish sauce. Michael Russell | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, "Smallwares is closing, again," 3 Sep. 2019 Hong, a rising Korean-American chef with a national profile, also operates fried chicken pop-up Sunday Bird and the Asian American Museum’s Sunday at the Museum. Janelle Bitker, SFChronicle.com, "Huli Huli Hawaiian Grill to become Sunday Gather. The transition hasn’t exactly been smooth," 3 Sep. 2019 Unlike the others, this one — spun on a stick with leaves wrapped in — looks like a big fried potato wedge. Lois Szymanski, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, "Szymanski: The miracle of metamorphosis another of Mother Nature’s lessons," 1 Sep. 2019 During filming, Rashad blew away celebrity judges like Marcus Samuelsson with his fried soft-shell crab with banana ketchup. San Francisco Chronicle, "Rashad Armstead fills a bag of French fries at his restaurant, Grammie's Down-Home Chicken, in Oakland.," 30 Aug. 2019

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First Known Use of fried

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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fried

adjective

English Language Learners Definition of fried

: cooked in hot oil
US, informal : not able to think clearly because you are very tired

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