pry bar

Questions about pry bar

What is another word for pry bar?

It depends which pry bar you mean. In the sense “a heavy iron lever with one end forged into a wedge”, the synonyms are crowbar, wrecking bar, pry. Across all 1 sense there are 3 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of pry bar?

WordNet records no antonym for pry bar. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for pry bar come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of pry bar

• Full entry for pry barAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for pry barWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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