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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

fried
    adj 1: cooked by frying in fat [syn: fried, deep-fried]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Fried \Fried\ (fr[imac]d),
   imp. & p. p. of Fry.
   [1913 Webster]

3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Fry \Fry\ (fr[imac]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fried (fr[imac]d);
   p. pr. & vb. n. Frying.] [OE. frien, F. frire, fr. L.
   frigere to roast, parch, fry, cf. Gr. ?, Skr. bhrajj. Cf.
   Fritter.]
   To cook in a pan or on a griddle (esp. with the use of fat,
   butter, or olive oil) by heating over a fire; to cook in
   boiling lard or fat; as, to fry fish; to fry doughnuts.
   [1913 Webster]

4. The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003)

fried
 adj.

    1. [common] Non-working due to hardware failure; burnt out. Especially used
    of hardware brought down by a power glitch (see glitch), drop-outs, a
    short, or some other electrical event. (Sometimes this literally happens to
    electronic circuits! In particular, resistors can burn out and transformers
    can melt down, emitting noxious smoke ? see friode, SED and LER.
    However, this term is also used metaphorically.) Compare frotzed.

    2. [common] Of people, exhausted. Said particularly of those who continue
    to work in such a state. Often used as an explanation or excuse. ?Yeah, I
    know that fix destroyed the file system, but I was fried when I put it in.?
    Esp.: common in conjunction with brain: ?My brain is fried today, I'm very
    short on sleep.?

5. The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018)

fried

   1.  Non-working due to hardware failure; burnt out.
   Especially used of hardware brought down by a "power glitch"
   (see glitch), drop-outs, a short, or some other electrical
   event.  (Sometimes this literally happens to electronic
   circuits!  In particular, resistors can burn out and
   transformers can melt down, emitting noxious smoke - see
   friode, SED and LER.  However, this term is also used
   metaphorically.)  Compare frotzed.

   2.  Of people, exhausted.  Said particularly of those
   who continue to work in such a state.  Often used as an
   explanation or excuse.  "Yeah, I know that fix destroyed the
   file system, but I was fried when I put it in."  Especially
   common in conjunction with "brain": "My brain is fried today,
   I'm very short on sleep."

   [Jargon File]

   (1996-04-28)

Thesaurus Results for fried:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

afflicted, baked, bent, boiled, bombed, boozy, braised, broiled, browned, canned, cockeyed, cockeyed drunk, coddled, cooked, crocked, crocko, curried, deviled, disguised, drunk, elevated, fired, fricasseed, fuddled, grilled, half-seas over, heated, high, illuminated, inebriated, lit, lit up, loaded, lubricated, lushy, muddled, muzzy, oiled, organized, oven-baked, pan-broiled, parboiled, pickled, pie-eyed, pissed, pissy-eyed, pixilated, plastered, poached, polluted, potted, raddled, roast, roasted, sauteed, scalloped, seared, shellacked, shirred, skunk-drunk, smashed, soaked, soused, squiffy, steamed, stewed, stinko, swacked, tanked, tight, toasted

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