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prise

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Scrabble points
7
Words With Friends
8
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/pɹaɪz/

Definition of prise

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. To force (open) with a lever; to pry.
    “I think he must have been trying to prise open that box yonder when he was attacked.”
    “Come, force the gates with crowbars, prise them apart!”
    “Most people used pliers, scissors, rubber gloves and knives to try to prise open products.”
    “Many prefectural governments operate support centers for families of hikikomori, but they are staffed by nonspecialists. The priority is to help prise hikikomori out of their rooms and get them back to work, a solution that may leave psychological issues unaddressed.”
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verb

  1. To force (open) with a lever; to pry.
    “I think he must have been trying to prise open that box yonder when he was attacked.”
    “Come, force the gates with crowbars, prise them apart!”
    “Most people used pliers, scissors, rubber gloves and knives to try to prise open products.”
    “Many prefectural governments operate support centers for families of hikikomori, but they are staffed by nonspecialists. The priority is to help prise hikikomori out of their rooms and get them back to work, a solution that may leave psychological issues unaddressed.”
  2. To extract something that is difficult to obtain.
    “prise information out of someone”

noun

  1. (obsolete)An enterprise or adventure.
    “In which I may record the memory Of my loves conquest, peerlesse beauties prise”
  2. (alt-of, obsolete)Obsolete form of prize.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From the Middle English noun prise (“taking of something”), from Old French prise (“seizure; taking; capture”), past participle of prendre (“to take”). Doublet of prize.

Anagrams of prise

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