| 单词 | to pry out |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto pry out to pry out intransitive and transitive. To search or find out by prying. Now rare, and difficult to distinguish from pry v.2 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > research > find out by investigation [verb (transitive)] seekc900 seeOE searcha1382 takea1382 inquire1390 undergrope?a1412 explore1531 to pry out1548 to scan out1548 to hunt out1576 sound1596 exquire1607 pervestigate1610 pump1611 trace1642 probe1649 to hunt up1741 to pick a person's brains (also brain)1770 verify1801 to get a load of1929 sus1966 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VII f. xxxijv He secretly sent wise espialles..to searche & prye oute of what progeny thys misnamed Rycharde was dissended. 1653 Duchess of Newcastle Poems & Fancies 145 Eyes that pry out, and spie examples good. 1760 W. Dodd Hymn to Good-nature in Poems (1767) 4 Never..to pry out littleness and faults, Where merit claims my praise. 1850 H. Melville White-jacket lxxiii. 357 Bland, the master-at-arms, ravished with their dexterity in prying out offenders, used to call them his two right hands. 1994 S. M. Baxter Ring (1996) xvi. 222 The people of the time tried to pry out the secrets of its intrasystem drive. < as lemmas |
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