The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Fried \Fried\ (fr[imac]d),
   imp. & p. p. of Fry.
   [1913 Webster]

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Fry \Fry\ (fr[imac]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fried (fr[imac]d);
   p. pr. & vb. n. Frying.] [OE. frien, F. frire, fr. L.
   frigere to roast, parch, fry, cf. Gr. ?, Skr. bhrajj. Cf.
   Fritter.]
   To cook in a pan or on a griddle (esp. with the use of fat,
   butter, or olive oil) by heating over a fire; to cook in
   boiling lard or fat; as, to fry fish; to fry doughnuts.
   [1913 Webster]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

fried
    adj 1: cooked by frying in fat [syn: fried, deep-fried]

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

71 Moby Thesaurus words for "fried":
   afflicted, baked, bent, boiled, bombed, boozy, braised, broiled,
   browned, canned, cockeyed, cockeyed drunk, coddled, cooked,
   crocked, crocko, curried, deviled, disguised, drunk, elevated,
   fired, fricasseed, fuddled, grilled, half-seas over, heated, high,
   illuminated, inebriated, lit, lit up, loaded, lubricated, lushy,
   muddled, muzzy, oiled, organized, oven-baked, pan-broiled,
   parboiled, pickled, pie-eyed, pissed, pissy-eyed, pixilated,
   plastered, poached, polluted, potted, raddled, roast, roasted,
   sauteed, scalloped, seared, shellacked, shirred, skunk-drunk,
   smashed, soaked, soused, squiffy, steamed, stewed, stinko, swacked,
   tanked, tight, toasted



The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003):

fried
 adj.

    1. [common] Non-working due to hardware failure; burnt out. Especially used
    of hardware brought down by a power glitch (see glitch), drop-outs, a
    short, or some other electrical event. (Sometimes this literally happens to
    electronic circuits! In particular, resistors can burn out and transformers
    can melt down, emitting noxious smoke ? see friode, SED and LER.
    However, this term is also used metaphorically.) Compare frotzed.

    2. [common] Of people, exhausted. Said particularly of those who continue
    to work in such a state. Often used as an explanation or excuse. ?Yeah, I
    know that fix destroyed the file system, but I was fried when I put it in.?
    Esp.: common in conjunction with brain: ?My brain is fried today, I'm very
    short on sleep.?


The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

fried

   1.  Non-working due to hardware failure; burnt out.
   Especially used of hardware brought down by a "power glitch"
   (see glitch), drop-outs, a short, or some other electrical
   event.  (Sometimes this literally happens to electronic
   circuits!  In particular, resistors can burn out and
   transformers can melt down, emitting noxious smoke - see
   friode, SED and LER.  However, this term is also used
   metaphorically.)  Compare frotzed.

   2.  Of people, exhausted.  Said particularly of those
   who continue to work in such a state.  Often used as an
   explanation or excuse.  "Yeah, I know that fix destroyed the
   file system, but I was fried when I put it in."  Especially
   common in conjunction with "brain": "My brain is fried today,
   I'm very short on sleep."

   [Jargon File]

   (1996-04-28)