Noun

• S: (n) crowbar, wrecking bar, pry, pry bar (a heavy iron lever with one end forged into a wedge)

Verb

• S: (v) 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"
• S: (v) pry (be nosey) "Don't pry into my personal matters!"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• derivationally related form
• sentence frame
• S: (v) intrude, horn in, pry, nose, poke (search or inquire in a meddlesome way) "This guy is always nosing around the office"
• S: (v) pry, prise (make an uninvited or presumptuous inquiry) "They pried the information out of him"