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pry

/prahy/US // praɪ //UK // (praɪ) //

窥探,撬开,撬动,刺探

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
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    pried, pry·ing.

    • : to inquire impertinently or unnecessarily into something: to pry into the personal affairs of others.
    • : to look closely or curiously; peer; peep.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural pries.

    • : an impertinently inquisitive person.
    • : an act of prying.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbforce or break open
Forms: pried, prying
Antonyms

Examples

  • In a small area, he explains, using a pry bar to leverage a heavy piece of material onto sections of rolling steel pipe can be a way to move it to a more open area.

  • Escondido Police Chief Ed Varso said last week that Olson, armed with a metal pry bar, charged Moore, who backed away and gave warnings before opening fire.

  • Harvest those carefully using a strong knife or small pry bar.

  • Knapp hopes she can pry open some of those doors for people.

  • Others want to pry it out and have two votes, one on government funding and one on the Syria dough.

  • Among them were the persistent efforts of a single congressman to pry out of the Pentagon the true costs of running Guantanamo.

  • Andrew lifts the roof of the first house and his dad uses a small metal hook to pry the first wall of honeycombs out of the hive.

  • These other benign interests are being used to pry open the door for all of these other uses.

  • Many a spy of the Kaiser had tried to pry there and had been arrested and sentenced to a long term of imprisonment.

  • The banks do not pry into his moral character: they are satisfied that he meets his overdrafts and promissory notes punctually.

  • So he didn't pry into my pockets, but only felt outside with his hands, and said it was all right.

  • I hope I can pry Welborn loose from his digging and delving long enough to take me over that road again.

  • Madame Fontaine is thought, by those who seek to pry into the future, to be wiser in her wisdom than Mademoiselle Lenormand.