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1. To move or force, especially in an effort to get something open
   "Raccoons managed to pry the lid off the garbage pail";
   - prise [Brit, Cdn], prize [N. Amer], lever, jimmy [N. Amer], jemmy [Brit]
    
2. Be nosey
   "Don't pry into my personal matters!";
   - nosy, nosey
    
3. Search or inquire in a meddlesome way
   "This guy is always prying around the office";
   - intrude, horn in, nose, poke
    
4. Make an uninvited or presumptuous inquiry
   "They pried the information out of him";
   - prise [Brit, Cdn], prize [N. Amer]

1. A heavy iron lever with one end forged into a wedge
   - crowbar, wrecking bar, pry bar

Derived forms: pried, pries, prying

See also: nose out

Type of: ask, enquire [Brit, Cdn], extort, inquire, lever, look, open, open up, search, wring from

Encyclopedia: Pry, To