Difference between Electrocute and Fry

What is the difference between Electrocute and Fry?

Electrocute as a verb is to cause death resulting from immediate complications resulting from electric shock. while Fry as a verb is to cook (something) in hot fat.

Electrocute

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To cause death resulting from immediate complications resulting from electric shock. To inflict a severe electric shock, not necessarily fatally.

Fry

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To cook (something) in hot fat.To cook in hot fat.To suffer because of too much heat.To be executed by the electric chair.To destroy (something-usually electronic) with excessive heat, voltage, or current.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: (usually in plural fries) (mainly Canada and US) A fried potato.A meal of fried sausages, bacon, eggs, etc.Young fish.A swarm, especially of something small (a fry of children).

Example sentence: Climate change is not the fault of man. It's Mother Nature's way. And sucking greenhouse gases from the atmosphere is too limited a solution. We have to be prepared for fire or ice, for fry or freeze. We have to be prepared for change.

We hope you now know whether to use Electrocute or Fry in your sentence.

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