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Pry

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Noun

1. crowbar, pry, pry bar, wrecking bar

a heavy iron lever with one end forged into a wedge

Verb

2. jimmy, lever, prise, prize, pry

to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open

Example Sentences:
'The burglar jimmied the lock'
'Raccoons managed to pry the lid off the garbage pail'

3. pry

be nosey

Example Sentences:
'Don't pry into my personal matters!'

4. horn in, intrude, nose, poke, pry

search or inquire in a meddlesome way

Example Sentences:
'This guy is always nosing around the office'

5. prise, pry

make an uninvited or presumptuous inquiry

Example Sentences:
'They pried the information out of him'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Pry

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verbWord forms: pries, prying or pried
1. (intransitive; often foll by into)
to make an impertinent or uninvited inquiry (about a private matter, topic, etc)
nounWord forms: plural pries
2. 
the act of prying
3. 
a person who pries
verbWord forms: pries, prying or pried
1. 
to force open by levering
2. US and Canadian
to extract or obtain with difficulty
they had to pry the news out of him

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Pry

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verb intransitiveWord forms: pried or ˈprying
1. 
to look closely and inquisitively or inquire presumptuously; peer or snoop
nounWord forms: plural pries
2. 
the act of prying
3. 
a person who is improperly inquisitive
nounWord forms: plural pries
1. 
a tool for raising or moving something by leverage; lever, crowbar, etc.
2. 
leverage
verb transitiveWord forms: pried or ˈprying
3. 
to raise, move, or force with a pry
4. 
to draw forth or obtain with difficulty
to pry money from a miser

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Pry

see synonyms of pry
intr.v. pried (prīd), pry·ing, pries (prīz)
To look or inquire closely, curiously, or impertinently: was always prying into the affairs of others.
tr.v. pried (prīd), pry·ing, pries (prīz)
1. To raise, move, or force open with a lever.
2. To obtain with effort or difficulty: pried a confession out of the suspect.
n. pl. pries (prīz)
Something, such as a crowbar, that is used to apply leverage.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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