prise
verb/pɹaɪz/
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.
Definitions
To force (open) with a lever
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.
To extract something that is difficult to obtain.
- prise information out of someone
An enterprise or adventure.
- In which I may record the memory Of my loves conquest, peerlesse beauties prise
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Obsolete form of prize.
The neighborhood
- neighborprice
- neighborprise de fer
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for prise. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA