He pried open the locked door with a crowbar.
Source: tatoeba (301743)
Crowbar
//ˈkɹoʊˌbɑɹ//
Synonyms for "crowbar" (57 found)
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Closest matches (12)
Strong matches (17)
Related words (28)
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1 entriesat location
1 entriescapable of
3 entriesderived
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7 entriesrelated to
9 entriesTranslations
128 translations across 64 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- koevoet noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- μοχλός noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
Arabic
1 entries- عَتَلَة noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
Armenian
1 entries- լինգ noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- ling noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
Belarusian
2 entries- лом noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
- цвікадзёр noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
Catalan
2 entries- alçaprem noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
- palanqueta noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
Cherokee
1 entries- ᎨᏘᎶᏍᏗ noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 撬杠 noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
- 撬棍 noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
- 鐵挺 /铁挺 noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
- 鐵撬 /铁撬 noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
Czech
4 entries- pajcr noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
- pajsr noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
- páčidlo noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
- sochor noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
Danish
2 entries- brækjern noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
- koben noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
Dhivehi
1 entries- އަލަވަންގު noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
Dutch
2 entries- breekijzer noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
- koevoet noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
Esperanto
1 entries- levstango noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
Estonian
1 entries- sõrgkang noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
Faroese
2 entries- kleyv noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
- kúbein noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
Finnish
2 entries- sorkkarauta noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
- kangeta verb (to force to move, usually with a crowbar)
French
2 entries- pied-de-biche noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
- pince-monseigneur noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
Georgian
1 entries- ძალაყინი noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
German
4 entries- Brecheisen noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
- Brechstange noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
- Geißfuß noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
- Hebeeisen noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
Greek
1 entries- λοστός noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
Gujarati
1 entries- પારી noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
Hebrew
1 entries- לום noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
Hindi
4 entries- अधिपारक noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
- खनती noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
- रंभा noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
- सब्बल noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
Hungarian
4 entries- emeltyű noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
- emelőrúd noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
- feszítővas noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
- pajszer noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
Icelandic
1 entries- kúbein noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
Indonesian
1 entries- linggis noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
Irish
1 entries- gró noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
Italian
4 entries- cavachiodi noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
- levachiodi noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
- palanchino noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
- piede di porco noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
Japanese
3 entries- バー noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
- バール noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
- 鉄梃 noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
Kannada
1 entries- ಹಾರೆ noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
Kazakh
2 entries- шегежұлғыш noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
- шегесуырғыш noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
Korean
4 entries- 노루발못뽑이 noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
- 빠루 noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
- 쇠지레 noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
- 크로우바 noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
Latin
1 entries- vectis noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
Latvian
1 entries- lauznis noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
Lithuanian
2 entries- dalba noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
- laužtuvas noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- Briecheisen noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
Macedonian
2 entries- хе́бла noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
- ќу́скија noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
Māori
3 entries- koropā noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
- whakatiriwhana noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
- whakatiriwhana verb (to force to move, usually with a crowbar)
Navajo
1 entries- béésh bee ayanaʼalgoʼí noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
Norwegian
2 entries- brekkjern noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
- kubein noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
Persian
2 entries- دِیلُم noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
- دیلم، اهرم verb (to force to move, usually with a crowbar)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Koofoot noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
Polish
1 entries- łom noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
Portuguese
1 entries- pé de cabra noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
Romanian
1 entries- rangă noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
Russian
4 entries- гвоздодёр noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
- ло́мик noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
- ло́мтик noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
- лом noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- pajser noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
- ćuskija noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
Sikaiana
1 entries- kolopaa noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
Sikkimese
1 entries- ལྕགས་ཧྲེང noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
Slovak
2 entries- pajsr noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
- páčidlo noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
Spanish
4 entries- barreta noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
- diablito noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
- diablo noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
- palanca noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
Sundanese
1 entries- suligi noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
Swedish
2 entries- bräckjärn noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
- kofot noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
Tagalog
3 entries- landok noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
- landol noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
- ligkal noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
Tamil
2 entries- கடப்பாரை noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
- நெம்புகோல் noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
Telugu
1 entries- పలుగు noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
Thai
1 entries- ชะแลง noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
Tok Pisin
1 entries- koroba noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
Turkish
1 entries- levye noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
Tày
1 entries- ba minh noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
Ukrainian
2 entries- лом noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
- цвяходе́р noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
Vietnamese
1 entries- xà beng noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
Walloon
2 entries- pidbixhe noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
- pî-d'-bixhe noun (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
Tom's head was smashed in with a crowbar or something similar.
Source: tatoeba (1922103)
Tom wedged the claw of the crowbar under the nailhead and pulled out the nail.
Source: tatoeba (1922104)
Tom used a crowbar to pry open the lid of the crate.
Source: tatoeba (1922105)
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