Synonyms for fry
fraɪfry

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1. Fry, Roger Fry, Roger Eliot Frynoun

   English painter and art critic (1866-1934)

   Synonyms:
   nestling, tiddler, youngster, tike, shaver, tyke, nipper, minor, kid, small fry, child

2. Fry, Christopher Frynoun

   English dramatist noted for his comic verse dramas (born 1907)

   Synonyms:
   nestling, tiddler, youngster, tike, shaver, tyke, nipper, minor, kid, small fry, child

3. child, kid, youngster, minor, shaver, nipper, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, fry, nestlingverb

   a young person of either sex

   "she writes books for children"; "they're just kids"; "`tiddler' is a British term for youngster"

   Synonyms:
   chela, kid, nestling, tiddler, pip-squeak, claw, electric razor, nipper, shaver, pincer, kidskin, boor, peasant, barbarian, squirt, churl, tyke, child, minor, tike, small fry, youngster, electric shaver, baby bird, baby

4. fryverb

   be excessively hot

   "If the children stay out on the beach for another hour, they'll be fried"

   Synonyms:
   electrocute

5. fryverb

   cook on a hot surface using fat

   "fry the pancakes"

   Synonyms:
   electrocute

6. electrocute, fryverb

   kill by electrocution, as in the electric chair

   "The serial killer was electrocuted"

   Synonyms:
   electrocute

Matched Categories

1. • Art Critic
   • Cook
   • Cookery
   • Dramatist
   • Heat Up
   • Kill
   • Painter

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. frynoun

   Synonyms:
   small fishes, swarm of little fishes, small fry

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1. List of paraphrases for "fry":

   alevins, fingerlings, frying, frye, yugoslavia

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1. Chuck Canterbury:

   Now you have people in social media saying, 'Fry him, glad he's dead,'.

2. Lorenzo Davis:

   If Officer Fry believed his life was in danger, then his fear was unreasonable, [He] should not have taken this young man's life.

3. Jonathan Green:

   The city recognizes, however, Officer Fry're in a new world.

4. Karen Ansel:

   To make it taste good, a lot of restaurants will deep fry or fry it in so much oil that it really negates any of the healthy benefits.

5. Zoltan Takacs:

   It takes seven to 25 years to develop a drug once you identify a toxin, people are always going to get sick, so you need new cures... snakes and other creatures can give you this life-saving medicine, Bryan Fry says.