pry+into
21pry — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. examine, search, seek, peer, ransack, peek, reconnoiter; raise, force, prize, lever. See curiosity, inquiry, vision. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To move with a lever] Syn. push, lift, raise, pull, prize,… …
22pry — 1. v.intr. (pries, pried) 1 (usu. foll. by into) inquire impertinently (into a person s private affairs etc.). 2 (usu. foll. by into, about, etc.) look or peer inquisitively. Derivatives: prying adj. pryingly adv. Etymology: ME prie, of unkn.… …
23pry — pry1 verb (pries, prying, pried) enquire too intrusively into a person s private affairs. Derivatives prying adjective pryingly adverb Origin ME (in the sense peer inquisitively ): of unknown origin. pry2 verb ( …
24go into — Synonyms and related words: accept, admit, affiliate, affiliate with, air, amplify, analyze, assemble, associate, assume, attack, attempt, barge in, be admitted, be enfranchised, be implicated in, bear a hand, break in, breeze in, buckle to,… …
25nose into — phrasal : to poke or pry into with or as if with the nose she was nosing into everything around here Edwin Lanham * * * ˌnose in ˈto [transitive] [he/she/it noses into present participle nosing into …
26poke one's nose into — maybe Barry should stop poking his nose into other people s lives Syn: pry into, interfere in, intrude on, butt into, meddle with; informal snoop into …
27poke one's nose into — idi poke one s nose into, to meddle in; pry into …
28Paul Pry (play) — Infobox Play name = Paul Pry image size = caption = writer = John Poole chorus = characters = Paul Pry mute = setting = date of premiere = 1825 country of Origin = England original language = English series = subject = genre = Farce Paul Pry… …
29Polly Pry — Mrs. Leonel Campbell Ross O Bryan (1857 1938), under the pen name Polly Pry, was a controversial reporter for the Denver Post and later as a freelancer in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She is best remembered for her… …
30paul pry — ˈpȯlˈprī noun (plural paul prys) Usage: usually capitalized both Ps Etymology: after Paul Pry meddlesome hero of the comedy Paul Pry (1825) by John Poole died 1872 English playwright : an excessively inquisitive person we don t want any Paul… …
