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verb/pɹaɪz/
  1. 1

    To force (open) with a lever; to pry.

    • Come, force the gates with crowbars, prise them apart!
  2. 2

    To extract something that is difficult to obtain.

    • prise information out of someone
noun/pɹaɪz/
  1. 1

    An enterprise or adventure.obsolete

    • In which I may record the memory Of my loves conquest, peerlesse beauties prise
  2. 2

    Obsolete form of prize.alt-ofobsolete

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