Synonyms for pry


Grammar : Verb
Spell : prahy
Phonetic Transcription : praɪ

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Définition of pry

Origin :
  • "look inquisitively," c.1300, from prien "to peer in," of unknown origin, perhaps related to late Old English bepriwan "to wink." Related: Pried; prying. As a noun, "act of prying," from 1750; meaning "inquisitive person" is from 1845.
  • verb interfere in someone else's business
  • verb force or break open
Example sentences :
  • "Just held him up to pry into his private affairs," she put it bluntly to herself.
  • Extract from : « Good Indian » by B. M. Bower
  • (Aloud) I don't mean, my good girl, to pry into your family affairs.
  • Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 8 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
  • Young people are entitled to their own privacy; I don't want to pry.
  • Extract from : « Alice Adams » by Booth Tarkington
  • As to Mrs. Betts's former history, no one had the smallest right to pry into it.
  • Extract from : « The Coryston Family » by Mrs. Humphry Ward
  • It was one thing to pry into a man's secret; another, to help him escape from it!
  • Extract from : « Salted With Fire » by George MacDonald
  • Gently he tried to pry their resisting hands away from hers.
  • Extract from : « Now We Are Three » by Joe L. Hensley
  • He was reticent of his own business, however much he wanted to pry into mine.
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 » by Various
  • I forgot to say we dumped our guns and everything else we could pry loose.
  • Extract from : « A Yankee Flier Over Berlin » by Al Avery
  • Now pry off the connectors with the screw driver, as shown in Fig. 193.
  • Extract from : « The Automobile Storage Battery » by O. A. Witte
  • If their poor little property had lasted we should have had hard work to pry them out.
  • Extract from : « The Prisoner » by Alice Brown

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