Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- imp. & p. p. of
pry .
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
pry .
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Examples
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It's the first thing the fresh meat get when preseason workouts start in the spring and the last thing that is pried from a player's sweaty mitts when The Turk arrives and utters those dreaded 11 words.
Sports 2009
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Over 1,700 .45/70 cases were recovered, and just over .3 percent showed signs of being pried from a carbine chamber.
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The heart of the plant is pried from the ground, for only the hearts of the agaves are harvested.
Mescal 2003
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The heart of the plant is pried from the ground, for only the hearts of the agaves are harvested.
Mescal 2003
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His name was pried off libraries and campus buildings, and his 16,000-square-foot and helipad-equipped home was opened up to paying gawkers.
NYT > Global Home By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON 2011
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His name was pried off libraries and campus buildings, and his 16,000-square-foot and helipad-equipped home was opened up to paying gawkers.
NYT > Home Page By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON 2011
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A still stronger expression is used in _Christmas-Eve_, where the poets "pried" at life, turned up its surface in order to disclose all its hidden treasures of meaning.
Robert Browning: How to Know Him William Lyon Phelps 1904
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The weight of the mass higher up and the force of the current wedged him in rather tightly, and when he had been "pried" out he declared that he felt like an apple after it had been squeezed in the cider-mill, so he drove home, and Rufus Waterman took his place.
Homespun Tales Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889
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Although the building was surrounded by a large metal fence, I found one corner where that had been "pried" open to allow easy access.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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Some of the truths pried out feel calculated and often couched in dramaturgy worryingly close to television fare.
David Finkle: First Nighter: Jon Robin Baitz's "Other Desert Cities" is Red-Hot David Finkle 2011
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