pry
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a heavy iron lever with one end forged into a wedge
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- pry derivation
Sense 2 verb
to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open
The burglar jimmied the lock
Types & categories
- open hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 3 verb
be nosey
Don't pry into my personal matters!
Types & categories
- inquire hypernym
Related & opposite
- nosiness derivation
Sense 4 verb
search or inquire in a meddlesome way
This guy is always nosing around the office
Types & categories
- search hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 5 verb
make an uninvited or presumptuous inquiry
They pried the information out of him
Types & categories
- wring from hypernym
Related & opposite
- nosiness derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | pry |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | lever |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | jim crow |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | jimmy |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | crowbar |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | jimmy |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | lever |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | lever |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | leverage |
| 2 | entails | Related & opposite | loosen |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | open |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | nosiness |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | inquire |
| 4 | also see | Related & opposite | smell out |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | nose |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | nosiness |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | search |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | nosiness |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | wring from |