pry

pry
I
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
v. examine, search, seek, peer, ransack, peek, reconnoiter; raise, force, prize, lever. See curiosity, inquiry, vision.
II
(Roget's IV) v.
1. [To move with a lever]
Syn. push, lift, raise, pull, prize, move, tilt, hoist, heave, uplift, upraise, elevate, turn out, jimmy*; see also force 2 , open 2 .
2. [To endeavor to discover; often used with into]
Syn. search, ferret out, seek, ransack, reconnoiter, peep, peer, peek, snoop, gaze, look closely, spy, stare, gape, nose, be curious, inquire, stick one's nose in*, rubber*, rubberneck*; see also hunt 2 , meddle 1 .
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) v.
1. *stick one's nose in interfere, meddle, intrude, snoop, be nosy, *butt in, interlope.
2. open wrest, force open, pull apart, lift off, raise, lever, prize, jimmy.
IV
(Roget's Thesaurus II) I verb To look into or inquire about curiously, inquisitively, or in a meddlesome fashion: poke, snoop. Informal: nose (around). Idiom: stick one's nose into. See INVESTIGATE, PARTICIPATE. II noun A person who snoops: prier, snoop, snooper. See INVESTIGATE, PARTICIPATE.

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