Antonyms for pry

Grammar : Verb

Spell : prahy

Phonetic Transcription : praɪ

Definition of pry

Origin : "look inquisitively," c.1300, from prien "to peer in," of unknown origin, perhaps related to late Old English bepriwan "to wink." Related: Pried; prying. As a noun, "act of prying," from 1750; meaning "inquisitive person" is from 1845.

verb interfere in someone else's business
verb force or break open

Example sentences :

"Just held him up to pry into his private affairs," she put it bluntly to herself.
Extract from : « Good Indian » by B. M. Bower

(Aloud) I don't mean, my good girl, to pry into your family affairs.
Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 8 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth

Young people are entitled to their own privacy; I don't want to pry.
Extract from : « Alice Adams » by Booth Tarkington

As to Mrs. Betts's former history, no one had the smallest right to pry into it.
Extract from : « The Coryston Family » by Mrs. Humphry Ward

It was one thing to pry into a man's secret; another, to help him escape from it!
Extract from : « Salted With Fire » by George MacDonald

Gently he tried to pry their resisting hands away from hers.
Extract from : « Now We Are Three » by Joe L. Hensley

He was reticent of his own business, however much he wanted to pry into mine.
Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 » by Various

I forgot to say we dumped our guns and everything else we could pry loose.
Extract from : « A Yankee Flier Over Berlin » by Al Avery

Now pry off the connectors with the screw driver, as shown in Fig. 193.
Extract from : « The Automobile Storage Battery » by O. A. Witte

If their poor little property had lasted we should have had hard work to pry them out.
Extract from : « The Prisoner » by Alice Brown

Synonyms for pry

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