deep-fried; deep-frying; deep-fries

transitive verb

: to cook in deep fat

Examples of deep-fry in a Sentence

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Cooking methods like barbecuing meats and deep-frying fish also date back to West Africa before the transatlantic slave trade. Ben Abrams, NPR, 19 June 2025 Tempura Tempura is a style of cooking in which vegetables, shrimp, and white fish are dipped into an egg and flour batter and then deep-fried. Yukari Sakamoto, AFAR Media, 12 June 2025 The eggplant is first salted then quickly dipped in flour and egg batter, rolled with a mixture of ricotta cheese, spinach, and Parmesan then baked, not deep-fried, with a judicious amount of tomato sauce. John Mariani, Forbes.com, 22 May 2025 The following day, the researchers battered and quickly deep-fried their vegan calamari before proceeding to the taste tests. Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 24 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for deep-fry

Word History

First Known Use

1898, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of deep-fry was in 1898

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“Deep-fry.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/deep-fry. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.

Kids Definition

deep-fry

verb
ˈdēp-ˈfrī
: to cook in deep fat
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