Pry is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PRY in dictionary:

VERB:
• to inquire impertinently into private matters
• make an impertinent or uninvited inquiry into a private matter
• To raise or move, or attempt to raise or move, with a pry or lever; to prize.
• To peep narrowly; to gaze; to inspect closely; to attempt to discover something by a scrutinizing curiosity; -- often implying reproach.
• to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open
• be nosey
• search or inquire in a meddlesome way
• make an uninvited or presumptuous inquiry
• enquire too inquisitively into a person's private affairs
NOUN:
• A lever; also, leverage.
• Curious inspection; impertinent peeping.
• a heavy iron lever with one end forged into a wedge
• act of prying

Words related to PRY

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Words that contain PRY

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How to use PRY in a sentence

• I had plenty of enemies, I knew, as a man of my profession must of necessity have, but I could not think of one who would pry upon my movements like this.
• If he did not pry into everything and ask a thousand questions, the thoughtful observer would be fearful lest he were an idiot.
• If he does not choose to do that, we have no more right to pry into his secret than we have to discuss his family affairs or open his letters.
• But they have curiosity, and want to peer and pry into things.
• The lack of curb gave him no pry on the jaw of the chestnut and sheer strength against strength he was a child on a giant.
• Then you will have no secrets to keep if anyone should try to pry them loose.
• Beyond that Fyfe did not go, and Stella made no attempt to pry up the lid of his past.
• Detroit Jim seized the pick and began to pry the bricks loose from the arched roof of the conduit.
• But into this part of our subject it may not be well to pry too closely.
• You regard me, perhaps, as a Paul Pry prompted by idle curiosity.
• Upon one of these occasions, he persuaded a party of boys to pry up a pile of wood and tip it into a sloop, in a confused heap.
• Heaven bless all these merry vagabonds! We may not always wish to follow in their footsteps, but we like to keep near them and pry into their careless, happy lives.
• We had to use capstanbars to pry the big logs over and over.
• I do not want my sons to pry into what we are doing.
• If we ask whence this comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes, all philosophy is at fault.
• I have degraded myself and outraged you by making an appointment to pry into your Diary.
• She looked searchingly upon the smoked glasses, obviously trying to pry into the secret of the hidden eyes.
• He but beginneth on the faith because he seeth in that a rift wherein to put the lever that shall pry the whole state asunder.
• As the islanders always maintained a discreet reserve with regard to my own peculiar views on religion, I thought it would be excessively ill-bred of me to pry into theirs.
• We open its hood and pry into its internal economy.
• We felled a spruce tree seven inches in diameter, trimmed it and cut a pry twenty feet long from it.
• As it was, he pinched like a vise with his strong little jaws, and I had all I wanted to pry him loose.
• It was fastened by a bolt on the inside, but with the aid of his pry he soon shot it back.
• Russ thought that if he could pry up the fore-end of the calf, the animal could not drown in the mud.
• Peter Pry, who had been so distressed on her account, and was so delighted with a chance to see and talk with her again.
• They had made several ineffectual attempts to break the lock, or pry back the bolt.
• I didn’t come over to annoy you or to pry into your affairs.
• Looking about, he found a bit of iron and began to pry.
• Spies are sometimes sent among an enemy, to discover the state of his affairs, to pry into his designs, and carry back information.

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