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Drying vs Prying - What's the difference?

drying | prying |

As verbs the difference between drying and prying

is that drying is while prying is .

As nouns the difference between drying and prying

is that drying is the act of drying while prying is the act of one who pries.

drying

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

  • The act of drying.
  • A method of food preservation by removing water.

    • prying

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who pries.
  • * 1992 , Judith Jarvis Thomson, The Realm of Rights (page 280)
    • That it is wrongful to do a thing in that it is grubby in the way in which pryings for the sake of prurient interest are grubby, does not by itself make doing the thing an infringement of a claim.