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Vinony

prise

verb

  1. forcibly pry open
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /pɹaɪz/

noun

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.

  1. An enterprise or adventure.

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

  2. Obsolete form of prize.

verb

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.

  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”