PRIED Synonyms: 75 Similar and Opposite Words

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verb (1)

past tense of pry

as in pulled

to raise, move, or pull apart with or as if with a lever it took some effort to pry up the trap door

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as in yanked

to draw out by force or with effort a vain attempt to pry the cork out of a wine bottle

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past tense of pry

as in interfered

to interest oneself in what is not one's concern don't go prying into other people's business

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The latest was on Sunday, when interior doors of the restaurant were forced and pried open and $1,300 was stolen, all while a cleaning crew was inside. — Jess Fleming, Twin Cities, 21 Aug. 2026 Across six Premier League seasons in the 1990s, Newcastle pried 12 different players from poorer sides, more than anyone else in that period. — Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2026 Security video of the early April 9 morning burglary shows three men entered the business through a broken window, smashed the machines with sledge hammers and pried out the boxes while a fourth man acted as lookout, the report said. — Dennis Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 2026 Poole is a top-100 prospect from the Peach State and what makes his commitment to FSU even more impressive is the fact that the Noles pried him away from the home-state Georgia Bulldogs. — Austin Perry Outkick, FOXNews.com, 1 Aug. 2026 Once inside, the suspects smashed video poker machines with a sledgehammer and pried open an ATM, but did not leave with any money. — Elyssa Kaufman, CBS News, 30 July 2026 After the Navy shipped out, hurricane-force Aleutian winds pried homes apart. — Kyle Hopkins, ProPublica, 20 July 2026 My sternum was fractured, my rib cage pried open. — Will MacKin, New Yorker, 28 June 2026 Lonnie has plenty stacked against him, not least of all his own son, who is inching closer to surpassing his status in the golf world — people are even starting to call him the Hawk, a torch that had to have been pried out of his father’s hand. — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 25 June 2026

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The Twins pulled even in the second inning on Lee’s RBI single.

— LaMond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2026
However, entering June, crude prices pulled back significantly, while retail gasoline prices declined at a markedly slower pace.

— , CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026

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The officer is also seen putting a woman in a patrol car, the same woman who is shown on the ground having her hair yanked by an officer.

— Briauna Brown, CBS News, 24 Aug. 2026
In Berkeley, where California clay culture yanked ceramics out of the category of polite craft and into something huge, physical, ugly, and beautiful, Heilmann learned to weld.

— Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 18 Aug. 2026

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Charlotte Flair and Chelsea Green both qualified on television, Green over Kiana James and Flair over Nia Jax by disqualification after Jade Cargill interfered.

— Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
One area where the government interfered rather aggressively in the economy concerned the rates and tariffs the railroads charged.

— Steve H. Hanke, Fortune, 1 July 2026

Definition of interfered

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Wednesday’s topping-out ceremony, when a construction crew lifted the final structural beam into place, doesn’t change that.

— Mirjam Swanson, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2026
CrowdStrike's results lifted shares of fellow cybersecurity giant Palo Alto Networks, up more than 10% on Thursday.

— Paulina Likos, CNBC, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of lifted

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Using specialist skills, the team carefully extracted Purdy and reunited the kitten with her owner.

— Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 26 Aug. 2026
With the clock racing down to find Joe before she's extracted out of the country to her death, the team launches an assault against an airport hangar.

— David Hookstead OutKick, FOXNews.com, 25 Aug. 2026

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Better together Industry analysts, experts and insiders have consistently poked holes in the states' argument that the combination of TV networks would create antitrust issues.

— Lillian Rizzo, CNBC, 24 Aug. 2026
So too were the buildings, including my hotel, which poked through the seven-foot-high snowbanks, looking like an ancient shipwreck covered in shifting sand.

— Adam H. Graham, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of poked

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An active-duty Navy captain was placed in leadership ahead of the publisher’s resignation, sparking fears that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth might gain control of the newspaper prized for its independence.

— Liam Scott, Washington Post, 20 Aug. 2026
Green Lantern has long been prized by fanboy screenwriters, but a hard needle to thread.

— Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 16 Aug. 2026

Definition of prized

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Woodard went undrafted out of UNLV in 2025, and the Dolphins plucked him off the Texans’ practice squad in mid-December.

— Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 25 Aug. 2026
If the Panthers didn’t want him, in other words, he’d probably be plucked off the waiver wire by someone else.

— Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 24 Aug. 2026

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