prise
verb /praɪz/
/praɪz/
(especially British English) (North American English prize)
(also pry especially in North American English)
Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they prise | /praɪz/ /praɪz/ |
| he / she / it prises | /ˈpraɪzɪz/ /ˈpraɪzɪz/ |
| past simple prised | /praɪzd/ /praɪzd/ |
| past participle prised | /praɪzd/ /praɪzd/ |
| -ing form prising | /ˈpraɪzɪŋ/ /ˈpraɪzɪŋ/ |
- to use force to separate something from something else
- prise something + adv./prep. He prised her fingers from the bag and took it from her.
- prise something + adj. She used a knife to prise open the lid.
Extra Examples- He prised off the lid.
- See if you can pry the lid off.
- You will need to prise the old light socket out of the wall.
- I gently prised her fingers loose.
- She tried to prise open the door.
- I prised my wrist free.
- I tried to pry his hands off the box.
Word Originlate 17th cent.: from dialect prise ‘lever’, from Old French prise ‘grasp, taking hold’. Compare with pry sense (2).