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pried, past participle; pries, 3rd person singular present; prying, present participle; pried, past tense;
  1. Use force in order to move or open (something) or to separate (something) from something else
    • - using a screwdriver, he pried open the window
  2. Obtain something from (someone) with effort or difficulty
    • - I got the loan, though I had to pry it out of him
  1. crowbar: a heavy iron lever with one end forged into a wedge
  2. to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open; "The burglar jimmied the lock": "Raccoons managed to pry the lid off the garbage pail"
  3. be nosey; "Don't pry into my personal matters!"
  4. intrude: search or inquire in a meddlesome way; "This guy is always nosing around the office"
  5. make an uninvited or presumptuous inquiry; "They pried the information out of him"
  6. (prying) nosiness: offensive inquisitiveness
  7. (prying) nosy: offensively curious or inquisitive; "curious about the neighbor's doings"; "he flipped through my letters in his nosy way"; "prying eyes"; "the snoopy neighbor watched us all day"
  8. Paraguay , officially the Republic of Paraguay (República del Paraguay, ; Guaraní: Tetã Paraguái), is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to the east and northeast, and Bolivia to the northwest. ...
  9. The act of prying; An excessively inquisitive person; Looking where one is not welcome; being nosey; To look closely and curiously at, peep
  10. (PRYING) The amplification of an external force acting on a bolt by a lever action which can occur when that force is an eccentric tensile load.
  11. (PRYING) Looking at closely or curiously
  12. (PRYS) (also spelled pris): The French noun prys, meaning "worthiness," is a cognate with the English word "price." Prys was rich in connotations, appearing frequently in French chansons de geste and medieval romances. It embodies knightly worthiness on a number of levels. ...
  13. The three-character ISO 3166 country code for PARAGUAY.
  14. A canoeist's short, quick, powerful turning stroke. It is much preferred to the forward sweep or cross-bow draw for turning to the nonpaddle side in turbulent water.
  15. A canoe stroke used to move the boat in the opposite direction from that of a draw stroke (i.e. away from the paddling side)
  16. A stroke that pushes the canoe or kayak out from an obstacle or rapid.
  17. A stroke performed by placing the paddle near the gunwale with the blade parallel to the hull and prying the shaft outward off the gunwale. Not good for the paddle shaft. Or, after a while, for the gunwale. But sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.
  18. Closely related to Heston Syndrome, “You’ll pry-it from my cold dead hands” another old fart gone fanatic with dementia. Maybe he walked on polluted water.
  19. The paddle is used like a lever against the side of the boat to push the boat sideways. Mainly used in canoes.