Dictionary Entry
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
- 1noun
A lever; also, leverage.
- 2transitive verb
To raise or move, or attempt to raise or move, with a pry or lever; to prize.
- 3intransitive verb
To peep narrowly; to gaze; to inspect closely; to attempt to discover something by a scrutinizing curiosity; -- often implying reproach.
- 4noun
Curious inspection; impertinent peeping.
- 5noun
a heavy iron lever with one end forged into a wedge
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- 6verb
be nosey
"Don't pry into my personal matters!"
- 7verb
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"
- 8verb
make an uninvited or presumptuous inquiry
"They pried the information out of him"
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- 9verb
search or inquire in a meddlesome way
"This guy is always nosing around the office"
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