pry

pry is a 3-letter English word with 9 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A lever; also, leverage. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

3 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 8 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A lever; also, leverage.
2. transitive verb. To raise or move, or attempt to raise or move, with a pry or lever; to prize.
3. intransitive verb. To peep narrowly; to gaze; to inspect closely; to attempt to discover something by a scrutinizing curiosity; -- often implying reproach.
4. noun. Curious inspection; impertinent peeping.
5. noun. a heavy iron lever with one end forged into a wedge

   Synonyms: crowbar

6. verb. be nosey

   "Don't pry into my personal matters!"

7. verb. to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open: "Raccoons managed to pry the lid off the garbage pail"

   "The burglar jimmied the lock"

   Synonyms: jimmy, lever, prise, prize

8. verb. make an uninvited or presumptuous inquiry

   "They pried the information out of him"

   Synonyms: prise

9. verb. search or inquire in a meddlesome way

   "This guy is always nosing around the office"

   Synonyms: intrude, nose, poke

Synonyms

crowbar, jimmy, lever, prise, prize, intrude, nose, poke

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in pry:

pyr

Common word forms

prys, pried, prier, pries, pryer, priest, prying

Words from these letters

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