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.
Meanings
(obsolete) An enterprise or adventure.
In which I may record the memory Of my loves conquest, peerlesse beauties prise 1595, Edmunde Spenser [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “[Amoretti.] Sonnet LXIX”, in Amoretti and Epithalamion. […], London: […] [Peter Short] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC:
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.
Meanings
To force (open) with a lever; to pry.
Many prefectural governments operate support centers for families of hikikomori, but they are staffed by nonspecialists. The priority is to help prise hikikomori out of their rooms and get them back to work, a solution that may leave psychological issues unaddressed. 2019 June 6, Motoko Rich, “Japan’s Extreme Recluses Already Faced Stigma. Now, After Knifings, They’re Feared.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 06 Jun 2019:
Most people used pliers, scissors, rubber gloves and knives to try to prise open products. 2004 February 2, “'Wrap rage' hitting the over-50s”, in BBC News:
Come, force the gates with crowbars, prise them apart! c. 1925, Jack Lindsay, translation of Lysistrata
I think he must have been trying to prise open that box yonder when he was attacked. 1919, Sax Rohmer, The Quest of the Sacred Slipper:
To extract something that is difficult to obtain.
prise information out of someone
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Translations (14)
fi vääntää (to force open with a lever, to pry) · bg разбия (to force open with a lever, to pry) · nl openwrikken (to force open with a lever, to pry) · de aufstemmen (to force open with a lever, to pry) · ka ბერკეტით გახსნა (to force open with a lever, to pry) · fi kangeta (to force open with a lever, to pry) · nl wrikken (to force open with a lever, to pry) · cs páčit (to force open with a lever, to pry) · ru вскрывать (to force open with a lever, to pry) · ru взламывать (to force open with a lever, to pry) · mi whakatiriwhana (to force open with a lever, to pry) · bg разбивам (to force open with a lever, to pry) · cs vypáčit (to force open with a lever, to pry) · sv bända (upp) (to force open with a lever, to pry)