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Words that may be confused with prise
- prise , prize
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How to use prise in a sentence
The door was prised open by the editor of The American Prospect, Michael Tomasky, and we all spilled out, still furiously bonding.
Shouldn't be s'prised if the feller who introduced it and made a fight for it would stand mighty well, back home.
Scattergood Baines | Clarence Budington KellandTell ye, 'f the Old Boy himself sh'd ride up alongside, shouldn't be a mite s'prised to see him.
Overland | John William De ForestThen without much difficulty they prised up one of the thick planks with which the hut was roofed.
Condemned as a Nihilist | George Alfred HentyHe said Cap'n Baxter had failed dreadful in the last week, and that he wouldn't be s'prised if he dropped off most any time.
Cap'n Eri | Joseph Crosby Lincoln
"At last," he was chuckling, as he rubbed his hands together, and gently prised open that curious box of his.
The Great Airship. | F. S. Brereton
British Dictionary definitions for prise
prize
/ (praɪz) /
to force open by levering
to extract or obtain with difficulty: they had to prise the news out of him
rare, or dialect a tool involving leverage in its use or the leverage so employed
Origin of prise
1- US and Canadian equivalent: pry
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