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From the Middle English noun prise (“taking of something”), from Old French prise (“seizure; taking; capture”), past participle of prendre (“to take”).[1] Doublet of prize.

prise (third-person singular simple present prises, present participle prising, simple past and past participle prised)

  1. To force (open) with a lever; to pry.
    • 1919, Sax Rohmer, The Quest of the Sacred Slipper:
      I think he must have been trying to prise open that box yonder when he was attacked.
    • c. 1925, Jack Lindsay, translation of Lysistrata:
      Come, force the gates with crowbars, prise them apart!
    • 2004 February 2, “'Wrap rage' hitting the over-50s”, in BBC News‎[1]:
      Most people used pliers, scissors, rubber gloves and knives to try to prise open products.
    • 2019 June 6, Motoko Rich, “Japan’s Extreme Recluses Already Faced Stigma. Now, After Knifings, They’re Feared.”, in The New York Times‎[2], →ISSN, archived from the original on 6 June 2019:
      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.
  2. To extract something that is difficult to obtain.
    prise information out of someone

to force open with a lever, to pry

prise (plural prises)

  1. (obsolete) An enterprise or adventure.
  2. Obsolete form of prize.

obsolete: an enterprise

  1. ^ “prise, v.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

prise c (singular definite prisen, plural indefinite priser)

  1. (nautical) prize (anything captured using the rights of war)

prise (imperative pris, infinitive at prise, present tense priser, past tense priste, perfect tense har prist)

  1. to praise

From French prise.

prise f (plural prises or prisen, diminutive prieske n)

  1. (Belgium) electrical outlet, wall socket

From Old French prise.

prise f (plural prises)

  1. (electrical) socket, wall socket (also prise électrique)
  2. (martial arts) hold
  3. (climbing) hold (of a climbing wall)
  4. grip
  5. (baseball) a strike
  6. a taking or capture
    la prise de la Bastille
  7. (film) a take

prise f sg

  1. feminine singular of pris

prise

  1. inflection of priser:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

From pris.

prise (imperative pris, present tense priser, passive prises, simple past and past participle prisa or priset)

  1. to price (something)
    prise seg ut av markedet - price oneself out of the market

From Old Norse prísa, from Middle Low German prisen, from Old French priser.

prise (imperative pris, present tense priser, passive prises, simple past priste, past participle prist, present participle prisende)

  1. to extol, praise, commend, laud, glorify

From the past participle of prendre.

prise oblique singular, f (oblique plural prises, nominative singular **prise, nominative plural prises)

  1. seizure; taking; capture