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pries | pres |

As a verb pries

is .

As a noun pres is

.

As an adjective pres is

the color of meadow green.

pries

English

Verb

(head)
  • (pry)

    • Anagrams

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    pry

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) pryen, . More at (l).

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To look where one is not welcome; to be nosey.
  • To look closely and curiously at.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Watch thou and wake when others be asleep, / To pry into the secrets of the state.

    Noun

  • The act of prying
  • An excessively inquisitive person

    • Etymology 2

    1800, ("lever"), construed as a plural noun or as a 3rd person singular verb.

    Noun

    (pries)
  • A lever.
  • Leverage.

    • Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To use leverage to open or widen. (See also prise and prize.)

    • pres

    English

    ===(en)=== Pres' ''or'' ' Pres.
  • President (used as a title written before a president's name )

    • Noun

  • (legal)
  • (legal)

    • Usage notes

    This is the customary abbreviation of this term as used in case citations. See, e.g.'', ''The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, Nineteenth Edition (2010), "Case Names and Institutional Authors in Citations", Table T6, p. 430-431. English case citation abbreviations

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