Synonyms for Pry:

• n.

  •
  • elevate,
  • uplift,
  • hoist,
  • check up on,
  • lift,
  • turn out,
  • look into,
  • upraise,
  • look up,
  • pull,
  • heave,
  • delve,
  • tilt,
  • scout,
  • gather,
  • move,
  • research,
  • follow up,
  • push.
  •
  • hunt,
  • stare,
  • reconnoiter,
  • undo,
  • rubber,
  • burst open,
  • unfold,
  • unlock,
  • crack something open,
  • gaze,
  • try.
  •
  • participate.
  •
  • fall.
  •crowbar (noun)
  • re move,
  • re-moves,
  • re-move.
  •lever (noun)
  • peavy,
  • prise,
  • pedal,
  • treadle,
  • pinch bar,
  • treadles,
  • prises,
  • pedals,
  • prying bar,
  • peavey,
  • pry bar.
  •snoop (noun)
  • pryer,
  • buttin,
  • pryers,
  • pragmatists,
  • pragmatist,
  • butt-in.

• v.

  •butt in (verb)
  • get into act,
  • gat in to the act,
  • chiseled in,
  • muscles in,
  • put ones two cents in,
  • gets into the act,
  • poking ones face in,
  • chiselled in,
  • pokes one's face in,
  • gat in to act,
  • pokes one face in,
  • getting into the act,
  • chisels in,
  • got in to the act,
  • chiseling in,
  • charged in,
  • gat into the act,
  • poking face in,
  • got into the act,
  • poke one face in,
  • poked one's face in,
  • chiselling in,
  • puts one's two cents in,
  • bursted in,
  • bursting in,
  • get in to act,
  • charges in,
  • muscling in,
  • getting in to the act,
  • poking one's face in,
  • poke face in,
  • gat into act,
  • gotten into act,
  • putting two cents in,
  • poke ones face in,
  • puts one two cents in,
  • put one two cents in,
  • charging in,
  • puts two cents in,
  • got in to act,
  • getting into act,
  • putting one two cents in,
  • gets in to the act,
  • pokes face in,
  • poked face in,
  • poked one face in,
  • poked ones face in,
  • gotten in to act,
  • getting in to act,
  • poking one face in,
  • puts ones two cents in,
  • muscled in,
  • gets in to act,
  • putting one's two cents in,
  • gotten in to the act,
  • putting ones two cents in,
  • gotten into the act,
  • bursts in,
  • gets into act,
  • pokes ones face in,
  • get in to the act,
  • got into act.
  •communication (verb)
  • pry.
  •contemplate (verb)
  • be-held,
  • be-holds,
  • be holding,
  • in spects,
  • pro bed,
  • be holds,
  • pored over,
  • in-spects,
  • re gards,
  • re-gard,
  • be-hold,
  • staring at,
  • pro-bed,
  • pores over,
  • in spect,
  • be-holding,
  • in-spect,
  • stares at.
  •eavesdrop (verb)
  • tunes on,
  • tuned on,
  • tuning in on,
  • bended an ear,
  • bends ear,
  • tunes in on,
  • earsed in to,
  • am ears,
  • is ears,
  • is all ears,
  • ears in to,
  • wast ears,
  • tuned in on,
  • bend ear,
  • bent ear,
  • are ears,
  • am all ears,
  • bent an ear,
  • bending an ear,
  • was ears,
  • over hearing,
  • are all ears,
  • earsing in to,
  • earsed into,
  • over-heard,
  • bended ear,
  • over-hearing,
  • earses in to,
  • earses into,
  • over-hear,
  • being ears,
  • earsing into,
  • tune on,
  • wert all ears,
  • were ears,
  • over heard,
  • wert ears,
  • be ears,
  • was all ears,
  • bends an ear,
  • being all ears,
  • over-hears,
  • art all ears,
  • wast all ears,
  • bending ear,
  • over hears,
  • over hear,
  • were all ears,
  • listened in,
  • tuning on.
  •enquire (verb)
  • sought answer,
  • seek answer,
  • wanted to know,
  • wants know,
  • wants to know,
  • want know,
  • look in to,
  • wanting know,
  • sought an answer,
  • seeks answer,
  • wanted know,
  • wanting to know,
  • seeks an answer,
  • seeking answer,
  • seeking an answer.
  •extract (verb)
  • ex press,
  • evulses,
  • de-rive,
  • dis tilled,
  • with drawn,
  • ex torts,
  • with draw,
  • de-rived,
  • up-rooted,
  • evulsed,
  • up-root,
  • ex-acted,
  • de-riving,
  • ex-press,
  • de rive,
  • dis-tilled,
  • ex act,
  • up-roots,
  • ex-tort,
  • re aped,
  • up rooted,
  • de-rives,
  • with drew,
  • de rived,
  • de rives,
  • ex acting,
  • dis-tilling,
  • dis tilling,
  • ex tracts,
  • weeds out,
  • presses out,
  • evulsing,
  • ex-tracts,
  • dis-till,
  • re-aped,
  • with draws,
  • with drawing,
  • dis-tills,
  • dis tills,
  • ex-acting,
  • ex-act,
  • with-drawing,
  • ex pressing,
  • up roots,
  • re-aping,
  • up root,
  • up rooting,
  • ex-torts,
  • ex tract,
  • weeded out,
  • with-draw,
  • dis till,
  • ex pressed,
  • with-drawn,
  • ex-tract,
  • with-drew,
  • pressed out,
  • de riving,
  • ex tort,
  • up-rooting,
  • ex acts,
  • ex-pressing.
  •ferret out (verb)
  • dis close,
  • smelled out,
  • are to,
  • dis-covered,
  • dis-covers,
  • wert to,
  • was on to,
  • searches out,
  • nosing out,
  • dis closing,
  • scouting out,
  • dis-close,
  • dis covers,
  • hunts down,
  • un-earths,
  • un-earthing,
  • digged up,
  • dis cover,
  • am to,
  • picked up on,
  • smelling out,
  • picked upon,
  • un-cover,
  • wast on to,
  • chases down,
  • smokes out,
  • rooted out,
  • digged out,
  • were on to,
  • chased down,
  • un-earth,
  • dis-cover,
  • dis-covering,
  • smelt out,
  • dis covering,
  • sniffing out,
  • un covers,
  • roots out,
  • dis-closed,
  • un earthed,
  • drove out,
  • dis covered,
  • scouts out,
  • bring light,
  • smoking out,
  • nosed out,
  • hunting down,
  • picks up on,
  • un covered,
  • scouted out,
  • smoked out,
  • is to,
  • smells out,
  • un-covers,
  • dug out,
  • un-covering,
  • un earth,
  • art to,
  • pick upon,
  • un earthing,
  • hunted down,
  • being on to,
  • un earths,
  • dis-closing,
  • wast to,
  • dis closes,
  • wormed out,
  • chasing down,
  • were to,
  • is on to,
  • am on to,
  • wert on to,
  • worming out,
  • worms out,
  • sniffs out,
  • un-earthed,
  • drave out,
  • being to,
  • digs out,
  • picks upon,
  • noses out,
  • digging out,
  • un cover,
  • be to,
  • un covering,
  • picking upon,
  • dis closed,
  • are on to,
  • sniffed out,
  • dis-closes,
  • was to.
  •force (verb)
  • busted open,
  • de filing,
  • un doing,
  • un did,
  • un-did,
  • de filed,
  • breaks open,
  • un-doing,
  • brake open,
  • cracks open,
  • breaking open,
  • busts open,
  • un-does,
  • cracking open,
  • un does,
  • busting open,
  • de-files,
  • de file,
  • de files,
  • de-file,
  • un done,
  • de-filed,
  • de-filing.
  •force or break open (verb)
  • separate,
  • disjoin,
  • twist,
  • Uprear,
  • pick up,
  • tear,
  • disengage,
  • take up,
  • rear,
  • prize,
  • turn,
  • wrest,
  • press,
  • elicit,
  • divide.
  •grope (verb)
  • feeling blindly,
  • casting about,
  • felt blindly,
  • casts about,
  • feels blindly.
  •impinge (verb)
  • in fringe,
  • in-fringed,
  • in-fringes,
  • making inroads,
  • made inroads,
  • in fringed,
  • bear up on,
  • in-fringing,
  • makes inroads,
  • in fringes,
  • in fringing,
  • in-fringe.
  •inquire (verb)
  • hits up,
  • in quires,
  • tested waters,
  • requests information,
  • test waters,
  • tests waters,
  • pro spect,
  • sought information,
  • in quiring,
  • felt out,
  • pro spects,
  • feels out,
  • seeking information,
  • in-quired,
  • requesting information,
  • in-quiring,
  • in quired,
  • tests the waters,
  • requested information,
  • testing the waters,
  • seeks information,
  • testing waters,
  • pro-spects,
  • hitting up,
  • in quire,
  • tested the waters,
  • in-quires,
  • in-quire.
  •interfere in someone else's business (verb)
  • tap,
  • rubberneck,
  • be a busybody,
  • bug,
  • intrude,
  • be inquisitive,
  • be curious,
  • be nosy,
  • peek,
  • poke nose into.
  •interlope (verb)
  • inter loped,
  • inter-loped,
  • inter-loping,
  • inter loping,
  • inter-lopes,
  • inter lope,
  • inter-lope,
  • inter lopes.
  •investigate (verb)
  • give once over,
  • noses around,
  • re viewing,
  • re searches,
  • looksee,
  • giving once over,
  • re views,
  • putting the test,
  • giving the once over,
  • staked out,
  • re-searched,
  • puts to test,
  • look-sees,
  • looksaw,
  • looks over,
  • putting to test,
  • put the test,
  • put test,
  • re search,
  • go in to,
  • nosing around,
  • putting test,
  • muckrakes,
  • checked up,
  • checks up,
  • inquisites,
  • gives the once over,
  • nosed around,
  • puts test,
  • lookseeing,
  • stakes out,
  • puts the test,
  • re viewed,
  • made inquiry,
  • look-saw,
  • checking up,
  • putting to the test,
  • checks over,
  • re searched,
  • makes inquiry,
  • re-searching,
  • gave the once over,
  • put to test,
  • puts to the test,
  • inquisited,
  • looksees,
  • re-viewed,
  • re-views,
  • look-seeing,
  • look seeing,
  • re-view,
  • look sees,
  • look saw,
  • re view,
  • inquisiting,
  • gave once over,
  • checking over,
  • gives once over,
  • re searching.
  •jimmy (verb)
  • crowbarring,
  • crowbarred.
  •meddle (verb)
  • breaks on,
  • brake on,
  • pushing in,
  • crashed gates,
  • inter-pose,
  • inter posing,
  • break on,
  • fooling with,
  • breaking on,
  • sidewalk-superintending,
  • sticking nose in,
  • busybodying,
  • inter meddling,
  • inter pose,
  • kibitzes,
  • inter meddle,
  • dabbled in,
  • sidewalksuperintend,
  • fooled with,
  • breaks in on,
  • mixing in,
  • inter meddled,
  • pushed in,
  • inter-meddling,
  • wormed in,
  • chimed in,
  • inter-meddle,
  • chiming in,
  • inter-meddles,
  • dabbling in,
  • sidewalk superintends,
  • crashed the gates,
  • sidewalksuperintends,
  • sidewalk-superintended,
  • sidewalk superintend,
  • abusing rights,
  • kibitzed,
  • mixes in,
  • crashing the gates,
  • sidewalk superintended,
  • sticks nose in,
  • stuck nose in,
  • sticked nose in,
  • crashes the gates,
  • broke in on,
  • abused rights,
  • comes uninvited,
  • sidewalksuperintending,
  • fools with,
  • brake in on,
  • mixt in,
  • breaking in on,
  • worms in,
  • crash gates,
  • sidewalk superintending,
  • inter-posing,
  • inter-posed,
  • came uninvited,
  • inter posed,
  • coming uninvited,
  • pushes in,
  • inter meddles,
  • crashing gates,
  • sidewalksuperintended,
  • abuses rights,
  • dabbles in,
  • worming in,
  • crashes gates,
  • broke on,
  • chimes in,
  • inter-meddled,
  • sidewalk-superintends.
  •monkey (verb)
  • inter feres,
  • inter-feres,
  • inter fere,
  • inter-fere.
  •peer (verb)
  • eagling eye,
  • eagles eye,
  • got a load of,
  • glimming,
  • glimmed,
  • got load of,
  • get load of,
  • eagled eye,
  • gets a load of,
  • getting a load of,
  • gotten load of,
  • gotten a load of,
  • gets load of,
  • gat load of.
  •pick (verb)
  • in dented,
  • in-denting,
  • in-dent,
  • in-dented,
  • in-dents,
  • in dent,
  • in dents,
  • in denting.
  •question (verb)
  • gives third degree,
  • giving the third degree,
  • puts to the question,
  • holding out for,
  • inter-view,
  • holds out for,
  • give third degree,
  • pick brains,
  • asks about,
  • picking one's brains,
  • gives the third degree,
  • picked ones brains,
  • sounds out,
  • inter views,
  • inter view,
  • inter-views,
  • picked one's brains,
  • crossexamine,
  • putting through wringer,
  • inter-viewing,
  • picking one brains,
  • putting through the wringer,
  • picked one brains,
  • works over,
  • pick ones brains,
  • inter viewing,
  • puts question,
  • asking about,
  • inter-viewed,
  • wrought over,
  • raises question,
  • gave third degree,
  • asked about,
  • gave the third degree,
  • picks brains,
  • put question,
  • picks ones brains,
  • raised question,
  • put to question,
  • picks one brains,
  • held out for,
  • sweated out of,
  • picked brains,
  • putting to the question,
  • picks one's brains,
  • pick one brains,
  • giving third degree,
  • putting question,
  • sweats out of,
  • puts to question,
  • putting to question,
  • showed curiosity,
  • puts through the wringer,
  • sweated it out of,
  • inter viewed,
  • sweats it out of,
  • sweating out of,
  • sweating it out of,
  • picking ones brains,
  • raising question,
  • putting the question,
  • sweat out of,
  • puts through wringer,
  • picking brains,
  • puts the question.
  •raise (verb)
  • pro-moting,
  • up heaving,
  • puts on its end,
  • up cast,
  • placed up,
  • up-raising,
  • up-reared,
  • moves up,
  • up heaved,
  • up raise,
  • up-cast,
  • pro-motes,
  • up-rearing,
  • running up,
  • up-raise,
  • up-lifts,
  • up casts,
  • up-lifted,
  • putting its end,
  • up-heave,
  • up hove,
  • upcasts,
  • up-rears,
  • up rear,
  • upcasting,
  • up heaves,
  • up heave,
  • upheaves,
  • putting on its end,
  • up lifted,
  • up-raised,
  • up rearing,
  • put its end,
  • up-heaved,
  • up-heaving,
  • up-heaves,
  • up-lift,
  • puts its end,
  • pro moting,
  • placing up,
  • moving up,
  • up-casting,
  • up-rear,
  • up-raises,
  • up-lifting,
  • stands up,
  • up rears,
  • up lift,
  • ran up,
  • up casting,
  • up raised,
  • up lifts,
  • setting upright,
  • up lifting,
  • places up,
  • uphove,
  • up raising,
  • up-casts,
  • up-hove,
  • sets upright,
  • pro-mote.
  •ransack (verb)
  • de-spoiling,
  • go over with a fine tooth comb,
  • left no stone unturned,
  • de spoils,
  • looked high and low,
  • over hauled,
  • shakes down,
  • looks high and low,
  • looks over for,
  • makes with,
  • de spoil,
  • went over with a fine tooth comb,
  • leaving no stone unturned,
  • goes over with a fine tooth comb,
  • over hauling,
  • going over with a fine tooth comb,
  • making with,
  • over haul,
  • look over for,
  • looked high low,
  • looked all over for,
  • shaking down,
  • looking all over for,
  • go over with fine tooth comb,
  • goes over with a finetooth comb,
  • going over with finetooth comb,
  • over hauls,
  • made with,
  • made off with,
  • shook down,
  • went over with fine tooth comb,
  • go over with fine-tooth comb,
  • looking over for,
  • going over with fine-tooth comb,
  • over-hauled,
  • looks all over for,
  • takes away,
  • de-spoils,
  • leaved no stone unturned,
  • going over with fine tooth comb,
  • went over with a fine-tooth comb,
  • went over with finetooth comb,
  • go over with finetooth comb,
  • looking high and low,
  • de-spoil,
  • going over with a fine-tooth comb,
  • looking high low,
  • went over with a finetooth comb,
  • over-hauls,
  • leaves no stone unturned,
  • de-spoiled,
  • looked over for,
  • going over with a finetooth comb,
  • goes over with fine tooth comb,
  • over-haul,
  • go over with a finetooth comb,
  • goes over with fine-tooth comb,
  • goes over with a fine-tooth comb,
  • de spoiling,
  • goes over with finetooth comb,
  • looks high low,
  • over-hauling,
  • make with,
  • makes off with,
  • de spoiled,
  • look high low,
  • went over with fine-tooth comb.
  •root (verb)
  • grubbing up,
  • in-grained,
  • grubbed up,
  • in graining,
  • grubs up,
  • in-grain,
  • in-grains,
  • in-graining,
  • in grain.
  •search (verb)
  • rifle,
  • probe,
  • rummage,
  • comb,
  • forage,
  • seek,
  • scour,
  • sift,
  • look for,
  • winnow.
  •snoop (verb)
  • messes with,
  • snooked,
  • pokes nose in,
  • poking nose in,
  • snooking,
  • messed with,
  • poked nose in,
  • messing with.
  •spy (verb)
  • kept under surveillance,
  • setting eyes on,
  • fishes out,
  • stagged,
  • keeping under surveillance,
  • taking note,
  • keeps under surveillance,
  • takes note,
  • re conned,
  • re-conned,
  • fished out,
  • stagging,
  • sets eyes on,
  • reconning,
  • catching sight of,
  • re conning,
  • reconned,
  • took note,
  • re-conning.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • snooper,
  • unscrew,
  • Prier,
  • pulley,
  • bar,
  • uncork.
  •
  • gape,
  • unhook,
  • draw back,
  • roll down.
  •
  • fling.
  •
  • opening.
  •
  • spread.
  •butt in
  • interject,
  • poke one's face in,
  • charge in,
  • get into the act,
  • put one's two cents in,
  • chisel in,
  • muscle in,
  • burst in.
  •eavesdrop
  • wiretaps,
  • overhear,
  • be all ears,
  • listens in,
  • tune in on,
  • wiretapped,
  • listen in,
  • listening in,
  • overhears,
  • wiretapping,
  • bend an ear,
  • ears into,
  • Overhearing,
  • wiretap,
  • wire.
  •enquire
  • explore,
  • explores,
  • enquiring,
  • looked into,
  • seek an answer,
  • want to know,
  • Explored.
  •extract
  • weed out,
  • press out,
  • siphoning,
  • catheterizes,
  • weeding out,
  • siphoned,
  • Catheterized,
  • catheterize,
  • Catheterizing,
  • extorts,
  • pressing out,
  • evulse,
  • Extracting,
  • yank.
  •ferret out
  • root out,
  • worm out,
  • chase down,
  • smell out,
  • digging up,
  • scout out,
  • track down,
  • hunt down,
  • dig out,
  • quested,
  • picking up on,
  • rooting out,
  • be on to,
  • search out,
  • dig up,
  • nose out,
  • drive out,
  • pick up on,
  • searching out,
  • drives out,
  • dug up,
  • sniff out,
  • smoke out,
  • searched out,
  • questing,
  • driving out,
  • digs up.
  •jack
  • jacked.
  •jackscrew
  • lifter.
  •question
  • cross examine,
  • questions,
  • sounded out,
  • work over,
  • put through wringer,
  • showing curiosity,
  • shows curiosity,
  • hold out for,
  • give the third degree,
  • worked over,
  • sounding out,
  • put through the wringer,
  • sound out,
  • put to the question,
  • interviewed,
  • ask about,
  • put the question,
  • sweat it out of,
  • pick one's brains,
  • raise question,
  • questioning,
  • show curiosity.
  •search
  • turn upside down,
  • chase after,
  • looked for,
  • turned upside down,
  • turning inside out,
  • hunt for,
  • beat about,
  • turned inside out,
  • turn inside out,
  • gun for,
  • go in quest of,
  • rifle through,
  • looks for,
  • searches,
  • looking for.
  •snoop
  • poke nose in,
  • snooks.
  •Other relevant words:
  • dig,
  • voyeur,
  • Unrip,
  • propel,
  • squeeze,
  • busybody,
  • search through,
  • wrench,
  • eavesdropper,
  • smell around,
  • dig into,
  • irrupt,
  • tattler,
  • seeker,
  • look out for,
  • competition,
  • meddler,
  • spokesman,
  • nuzzle,
  • tabby,
  • comprehend,
  • nosy,
  • inquirer,
  • estimation,
  • claw bar,
  • poke into,
  • jemmy,
  • pray,
  • monkey with,
  • obtrusive,
  • look around,
  • intervene,
  • gossip,
  • beat the bushes,
  • marlinespike,
  • break,
  • fathom,
  • querier,
  • spar,
  • inspect,
  • scan,
  • loquacity,
  • busy,
  • curious,
  • sightseer,
  • tyrannical,
  • enquired,
  • impertinent,
  • price,
  • search into,
  • unusual,
  • be nosey,
  • look beyond,
  • inquisitorial,
  • newsmonger,
  • look through,
  • extortionate,
  • mess with,
  • boom,
  • impel,
  • uncover,
  • uphold,
  • nosey,
  • hold dear,
  • beam,
  • oppressive,
  • kibitzer,
  • treasure,
  • appreciate,
  • browse,
  • odd,
  • peeping tom,
  • delve into,
  • interlocutor,
  • jab,
  • wedge,
  • crank,
  • look round,
  • inquisitive,
  • exact,
  • unearth,
  • Intermeddler,
  • strange,
  • wrecking bar,
  • burrow,
  • interested,
  • go into,
  • look ahead,
  • rubbernecker,
  • snook,
  • ripping bar,
  • pragmatical,
  • meddling,
  • mess around,
  • pragmatic,
  • bend the eyes,
  • go through,
  • peak,
  • questioner,
  • peculiar,
  • scent,
  • Quidnunc,
  • esteem,
  • funny,
  • news,
  • mouse,
  • leverage,
  • apprehend,
  • buttinsky,
  • throw open,
  • plunder,
  • intellectual,
  • intrusive,
  • examine,
  • crack,
  • lionize,
  • tamper with,
  • frisk,
  • Dialogist,
  • pound,
  • meddle with,
  • drive,
  • prying,
  • handspike,
  • go over,
  • yenta,
  • bleed,
  • lay open,
  • gawk,
  • draw,
  • inquisitor,
  • scopophiliac,
  • pry into,
  • Conversationist,
  • Unclose,
  • snooping,
  • outrigger,
  • analytic,
  • reconnoitre,
  • coaster,
  • milk,
  • foresee,
  • regard highly,
  • Querist,
  • hunt out,
  • poke around,
  • rootle,
  • chatterer,
  • meddlesome,
  • officious,
  • overhaul,
  • thrust,
  • prod,
  • limb,
  • sound,
  • plumb,
  • abnormal,
  • crow,
  • Indagate,
  • valuation,
  • jimmies,
  • be lost,
  • Inquisitional,
  • ask intrusively,
  • cant hook,
  • blow open,
  • horn in,
  • search for,
  • interrogate.

Paraphrases for Pry:

• Independent

  • Verb, base form
    remove, detach, pull, open, opening.

Antonyms for Pry:

• v.

  • force or break open
    dissuade, destroy, combine, join, abandon, drop, discourage, fix, demote, repress, attach, connect, stop, lessen, suppress, decrease, unite, lower, fall, untwist, depress, keep, hide, straighten.
  • interfere in someone else's business
    ignore, neglect, close, leave alone.

Homophones for Pry:

• PRI.

Hyponym for Pry:

• v.

  • communication
    ask, inquire, enquire.