prise
pronunciation
How to pronounce prise in British English:
UK [praɪz]
How to pronounce prise in American English:
US [praɪz]
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- Verb:
- to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open
- make an uninvited or presumptuous inquiry
- regard highly; think much of
Word Origin
Example
- 1. It has its party machines , but groups that organise hard can use the primaries to prise them open .
- 2. Although western governments share the concerns of their companies , the us and eu have few policy tools that they can use to prise open the chinese market .
- 3. Modern physicists , aware of the hubris of their 19th-century predecessors , have never thought their subject closed . But nor have they found a chink in the armour of relativity that they could use to prise the whole thing open .
- 4. Challenge for newspapers to prise open digital wallets .
- 5. Mr prunier , elaborate , anecdotal and discursive , enjoys demolishing the idea that the war is a conspiracy of english-speaking countries to prise congo away from the french sphere of influence .