Adjective prying has 1 sense
  1. nosy, nosey, prying, snoopy - offensively curious or inquisitive; "curious about the neighbor's doings"; "he flipped through my letters in his nosy way"; "prying eyes"; "the snoopy neighbor watched us all day"
    Antonym: incurious (indirect, via curious)
,Noun prying has 1 sense
  1. nosiness, prying, snoopiness - offensive inquisitiveness
    --1 is a kind of curiousness, inquisitiveness
    Derived forms: verb pry3, verb pry4, verb pry2
,Verb pry has 4 senses
  1. pry, prise, prize, lever, jimmy - to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open; "The burglar jimmied the lock", "Raccoons managed to pry the lid off the garbage pail"
    --1 is one way to open, open up
    Derived form: noun pry1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s something PP
  2. pry - be nosey; "Don't pry into my personal matters!"
    --2 is one way to
    ask, inquire, enquire
    Derived form: noun prying1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s
    Somebody ----s PP
  3. pry, nose, poke - search or inquire in a meddlesome way; "This guy is always nosing around the office"
    --3 is one way to search, look
    Derived form: noun prying1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s PP
  4. pry, prise - make an uninvited or presumptuous inquiry; "They pried the information out of him"
    --4 is one way to extort, wring from
    Derived form: noun prying1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
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