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Definition of "pried" [pried]

  • Past tense and past participle of pry1. (verb)
  • Past tense and past participle of pry2. (verb)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "pried" in a sentence
  • "It's the first thing the fresh meat get when preseason workouts start in the spring and the last thing that is pried from a player's sweaty mitts when The Turk arrives and utters those dreaded 11 words."
  • "Over 1,700 .45/70 cases were recovered, and just over .3 percent showed signs of being pried from a carbine chamber."
  • "The heart of the plant is pried from the ground, for only the hearts of the agaves are harvested."