Definitions for Pry

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Spelling: [prahy]

IPA: /praɪ/

Pry is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 11 anagrams from letters in Pry (pry).

Definitions for Pry

noun

1. an impertinently inquisitive person.
2. an act of prying.
3. a tool, as a crowbar, for raising, moving, or opening something by leverage.
4. the leverage exerted.

verb (used with object)

1. to move, raise, or open by leverage.
2. to get, separate, or ferret out with difficulty:

verb (used without object)

1. to inquire impertinently or unnecessarily into something:
2. to look closely or curiously; peer; peep.

Origin of Pry

1275-1325; Middle English pryen, prien

Examples for Pry

As to Mrs. Betts's former history, no one had the smallest right to pry into it.

"Just held him up to pry into his private affairs," she put it bluntly to herself.

Knapp hopes she can pry open some of those doors for people.

Young people are entitled to their own privacy; I don't want to pry.

Among them were the persistent efforts of a single congressman to pry out of the Pentagon the true costs of running Guantanamo.

It was one thing to pry into a man's secret; another, to help him escape from it!

These other benign interests are being used to pry open the door for all of these other uses.

Others want to pry it out and have two votes, one on government funding and one on the Syria dough.

Andrew lifts the roof of the first house and his dad uses a small metal hook to pry the first wall of honeycombs out of the hive.

(Aloud) I don't mean, my good girl, to pry into your family affairs.