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Definitions for Pry

[1] to inquire impertinently or unnecessarily into something: to pry into the personal affairs of others.
[2] to look closely or curiously; peer; peep.
[3] an impertinently inquisitive person.
[4] an act of prying.
[5] to move, raise, or open by leverage.
[6] to get, separate, or ferret out with difficulty: to pry a secret out of someone; We finally pried them away from the TV.
[7] a tool, as a crowbar, for raising, moving, or opening something by leverage.
[8] the leverage exerted.
[9] (intr often foll by into ) to make an impertinent or uninvited inquiry (about a private matter, topic, etc)
[10] the act of prying
[11] a person who pries
[12] to force open by levering
[13] US and Canadian to extract or obtain with difficulty they had to pry the news out of him

Words related to Pry

poke, wrest, pull, extract, stare, peek, search, tap, gape, snoop, spy, inquire, hunt, intrude, meddle, investigate, gaze, nose, peer, peep

Words nearby Pry

prusso-danish war, prut, pruta, prutah, prw, pry, pryderi, pryer, prying, prynne, prypyat'

Origin of Pry

21800–10; back formation from prize3, taken as a plural noun or 3rd person singular verb

Word origin for Pry

C14: of unknown origin

Synonyms for Pry

poke, bug, gape, gaze, hunt, inquire, intrude, investigate, meddle, nose, peek, peep, peer, ransack, reconnoiter, rubberneck, search, snoop, spy, stare, tap, wiretap, be a busybody, be all ears, be curious, be inquisitive, be nosy, ferret out, listen in, poke nose into, tune in on