Fried

verb

past and past participle of fry¹.

1. (of food) cooked in hot fat or oil.

   a breakfast of fried eggs and bacon

2. exhausted or worn out.

   I had just come from doing a shoot and I was really fried

1. cook (food) in hot fat or oil, typically in a shallow pan.

   she fried a rasher of bacon, a sausage and a slice of bread

   I fried up some sardines

2. destroy.

   drugs fry the brain

Middle English: from Old French frire, from Latin frigere .