verb · neutral
fry
/fraɪ/FRY
Band 5-6speakingtask2
to cook food in hot oil or fat, usually in a pan.
Examples
“I usually fry an egg for breakfast.”
“Fry the onions until they turn golden.”
“She fried some tofu in a little oil.”
Band 8 sentence
“In my town people often fry small fish in plenty of oil until they're crisp, and we eat them with plain rice.”
Collocations
- fry in oil
- deep-fry
- shallow-fry
Word family
fry verbfried adjective / past participlefrying noun / adjective
Common mistakes
I like to fried chicken.→I like fried chicken.
She is frying the chicken yesterday.→She fried the chicken yesterday.
Say it for a higher band
5cook→6pan-fry→7+fry
Synonyms
pan-fry
deep-fry
Easily confused
deep-fry
“Many fast-food chains deep-fry their potatoes.”
pan-fry
“I pan-fried the fish in a little olive oil.”
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