prying

3 definitions • 4 examples

present participle of

to try to find out private facts about a person:

As a reporter, I was paid to pry into other people's lives.

I hope you don't think I'm prying, but has your boyfriend ever lived with anyone before?

She wanted a private holiday away from prying eyes (= where no one would be trying to see her).

to move or lift something by pressing a tool against a fixed point:

[ + adj ] The car trunk had been pried open and all her equipment was gone.