fry-v; 3 Senses

Sense Number 1: Be excessively hot; figuratively cooking; be damaged by a heat source.

Examples:
If the children stay out on the beach for another hour, they will
fry.
My scalp was fried by the lightning strike.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: Absorb_heat
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1

Sense Number 2: Cook on a hot surface using fat; cook in oil.

Examples:
We fried potato pancakes over the weekend.
Fry the vegetables in oil.
Shrimp should fry for only a few minutes.

Mappings:
VerbNet: cooking-45.3,preparing-26.3-2
FrameNet: Apply_heat
PropBank: fry.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 2

Sense Number 3: Kill by electrocution, as in the electric chair.

Examples:
They fried the serial killer yesterday as his family watched on.
He's gonna fry!

Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 3