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prypry /praɪ/ verb (pries, pried, prying) ETYMOLOGYpryOrigin: (1,3) 1300-1400 Origin unknown (2,4) 1800-1900 prize to force up (17-21 centuries), from prize lever (14-20 centuries), from Old French prise act of seizing VERB TABLEpry |
| Present | I, you, we, they | pry | | he, she, it | pries | | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | pried | | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have pried | | he, she, it | has pried | | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had pried | | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will pry | | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have pried |
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| Present | I | am prying | | he, she, it | is prying | | you, we, they | are prying | | Past | I, he, she, it | was prying | | you, we, they | were prying | | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been prying | | he, she, it | has been prying | | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been prying | | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be prying | | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been prying |
► pry something ↔ loose/off/apart etc. A raccoon was trying to pry open the lid of the garbage can. 1[transitive always + adv./prep.] to force something open, or force it away from something else: pry something ↔ loose/off/apart etc. A raccoon was trying to pry open the lid of the garbage can.2[intransitive] to try to find out details about someone else’s private life in an impolite way: Anna is a private person, and I did not want to pry.3away from prying eyes in private where people cannot see what you are doingpry something out of somebody phrasal verb to get money or information from someone with a lot of difficulty: If you want to know his name, you’re going to have to pry it out of her. |