: damaged or destroyed by an electrical surge or malfunction
The man behind the counter hooked up my computer to another machine and then gave me the bad news. "I'm afraid your hard drive is fried," the technician said. Tom McNichol
… too fried on crystal meth to be gambling on a game of pool, but doing it nonetheless. Joseph Wambaugh
… what about that time you got fried at the frat house after the big game against State and the judge fined you $50 and costs for dropping quarts of beer in paper bags out the second-floor window? Russell Baker
b
: mentally exhausted
At dinner after the book signing, he's fried, barely able to converse. Rick Martin
After spending about 14 hours on ESPN Radio, SportsCenter and espn.com, Gammons was completely fried. Rich Eisen
Sorry, I'm just fried today. grew up in a family in which Dad got fried on every weekend and holiday
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