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# pry

«pry» in Mova's school dictionary: **to force something open or up with a tool, or to ask…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (pries, pried, prying)

### meaning for a pupil

To pry is to force something open or up with a tool, or to ask questions about things that are none of your business. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pry/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, someone uses a tool to lever open a lid or a mouth; in everyday life, to look into other people's private matters

### examples

- He tried to pry the lid off the box with a spoon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pry/#x1)
- Please do not pry into my letters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pry/#x2)
- The men pried the stone from the ground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pry/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «pry» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pry/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.