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.