pry

1. 1.

   a heavy iron lever with one end forged into a wedge

   Synonymscrowbarwrecking barpry bar

   Broaderlever

   Narrowerjim crowjimmy

Other forms of pry

plural

pries·

past tense or participle

pried

present participle

prying·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about pry

What does pry mean?

pry means "to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pry?

pry has 1 syllable: pry. In IPA it is /ˈpɹaɪ/.

What is another word for pry?

Close synonyms include prise, prize, lever, jimmy, intrude. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pry a common word?

pry is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.