Usually means: Forcibly opened or levered apart.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. pried: Merriam-Webster
  2. pried, pried: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pried, pried: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pried: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pried: Vocabulary.com
  6. Pried, pried: Wordnik
  7. pried: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. pried: Wiktionary
  9. Pried, pried: Dictionary.com
  10. pried: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Pried: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. pried: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Pried: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. pried: FreeDictionary.org
  15. pried: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pried: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pried: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Pry)

verb:  (intransitive)
verb:  To peer closely and curiously, especially at something closed or not public.
verb:  (figuratively) To inquire into something that does not concern one; to be nosy; to snoop.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To peer at (something) closely; also, to look into (a matter, etc.) thoroughly.
noun:  An act of prying; a close and curious look.
noun:  A person who is very inquisitive or nosy; a busybody, a nosey parker.
noun:  (East Anglia, US) A tool for levering; a crowbar, a lever.
verb:  To use leverage to open, raise, or widen (something); to prise or prize.
verb:  (figuratively) Usually followed by out (of): to draw out or get (information, etc.) with effort.
noun:  A surname.
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