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Adjective prying has 1 sense
- nosy, nosey, prying, snoopy - 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"
Antonym: incurious (indirect, via curious)
Noun prying has 1 sense
- nosiness, prying, snoopiness - offensive inquisitiveness
--1 is a kind of curiousness, inquisitiveness
Verb pry has 4 senses
- pry, prise, prize, lever, jimmy - 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"
--1 is one way to open, open up
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
- pry - be nosey; "Don't pry into my personal matters!"
--2 is one way to ask, inquire, enquire
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
- pry, nose, poke - search or inquire in a meddlesome way; "This guy is always nosing around the office"
--3 is one way to search, look
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s PP
- pry, prise - make an uninvited or presumptuous inquiry; "They pried the information out of him"
--4 is one way to extort, wring from
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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