prise

• (verb) prize

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.

• IPA^(key): /pɹaɪz/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -aɪz
• Homophones: pries, 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

prise (plural prises)

1. (obsolete) An enterprise or adventure.
   • 1595, Edmunde Spenser [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “[Amoretti.] Sonnet LXIX”, in Amoretti and Epithalamion. […], London: […] [Peter Short] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC:

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

2. Obsolete form of prize.

• price
• prise de fer

• 'spire, Peris, Piers, Pires, Speir, Spier, peris, piers, pries, resip, ripes, spier, spire

• IPA^(key): /priːsə/, [ˈpʰʁ̥iːsə]
• Rhymes: -iːsə

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

• “prise” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “prise,2” in Den Danske Ordbog

From French prise.

• IPA^(key): /ˈprizə/, /pris/

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

1. (Belgium) electrical outlet, wall socket

• spier

• IPA^(key): /pʁiz/

• Audio; “une prise”:

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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

• → Dutch: prise
• → Greek: πρίζα (príza)
• → Persian: پریز (periz)
• → Romanian: priză
• → Turkish: priz

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

• “prise”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• péris, pires, pries, priés, ripes, ripés, spire

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

• overpriset

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

• “prise” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “prise_3” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “prise_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

• price

From the past participle of prendre.

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

1. seizure; taking; capture

• Middle French: prinse
  • French: prise