prise
Etymology
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Etymology
From Old French prise.
Pronunciation- IPA: /pɹaɪz/
prise (prises, present participle prising; simple 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.
- Extract something that is difficult to obtain.
- prise information out of someone
- German: aufstemmen
- Russian: взламывать
prise (plural prises)
- (obsolete) An enterprise or adventure.
- 1595, Edmunde Spenser [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “[Amoretti.] Sonnet LXIX”, in Amoretti and Epithalamion. […], London: […] [Peter Short] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC ↗:
- In which I may record the memory Of my loves conquest, peerlesse beauties prise
- Obsolete form of prize
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