prise

UK /pɹaɪz/ US /pɹaɪz/
verb 2noun 2

Definitions

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!

2

To extract something that is difficult to obtain.

prise information out of someone

noun

1

An enterprise or adventure.

In which I may record the memory Of my loves conquest, peerlesse beauties prise

2

Obsolete form of prize.

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