prise
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /pɹaɪz/
prise (plural prises)
- (obsolete) An enterprise or adventure.
- Obsolete form of prize#English|prize.
prise (prises, present participle prising; past and past participle prised)
- To force (open) with a lever; to pry.
- 1919, Sax Rohmer, The Quest of the Sacred Slipper
- I think he must have been trying to prise open that box yonder when he was attacked.
- c. 1925, Jack Lindsay, translation of Lysistrata
- Come, force the gates with crowbars, prise them apart!
- 2004, BBC News
- Most people used pliers, scissors, rubber gloves and knives to try to prise open products.
- 1919, Sax Rohmer, The Quest of the Sacred Slipper
- Russian: взламывать
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