Dries vs Pries - What's the difference?
dries | pries |
(pry)
To look where one is not welcome; to be nosey.
To look closely and curiously at.
* Shakespeare
The act of prying
An excessively inquisitive person
A lever.
Leverage.
To use leverage to open or widen. (See also prise and prize.)
As verbs the difference between dries and pries
is that dries is third-person singular of dry while pries is third-person singular of pry.As a noun dries
is plural of lang=en.pries
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(head)Anagrams
* ----pry
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) pryen, . More at (l).Verb
(en-verb)- Watch thou and wake when others be asleep, / To pry into the secrets of the state.