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Prise meaning
To force (open) with a lever; to pry. | To extract something that is difficult to obtain.
Example sentences (16)
Set against a post-pandemic backdrop, where the world is struggling to emerge from years of suppression and control, Elsa is forced to brutally prise open the shell of her restricted and disciplined upbringing in order to set herself free.
Good luck trying to prise him away in January, though.
Meanwhile, there have been suggestions in his homeland that Flamengo and AC Milan were keen on signing the 24-year-old - but found him too expensive to prise from Spurs.
Thordarson had six months left on his Silkeborg contract, with a reported £600,000 fee enough to prise him away from the Danish club.
When the weather is this dismal, it’s a tough task to prise ourselves from our duvet in the morning.
The singular intention of the US administration is to further prise open Indian economy to boost the US corporate interest and thus help the re-election bid of Trump,” it said.
With the show now streaming on Twitch as of this writing, it has completely taken over Twitter as fans celebrate each of the wins and wonder how many of the favorites they voted for are able to take that top prise.
Boavista has safely avoided demotion but there is already belief the heavyweights of the division, the likes of Porto, Benfica or Braga could lodge a bid to prise Yusupha away.
Does this mean that the rest of the world—especially the West—should seek to prise Russia from China’s embrace, before it is too late?
Ex-remainer MPs would struggle to defend arrangements that they had endorsed only in a vain attempt to bring closure, while nationalist radicals would exploit that ambivalence to prise the old wounds open.
Prise the shallots apart so you have individual rings.
The Princess also said, in classic good-humour, that as a policeman managed to prise open the car door: “The back of my dress split from top to bottom.
SHE feels her daughter has fallen in with bad company this year, and efforts to prise her away from the new friends have failed.
So, for everyone who feels like enlisting my help to prise open the door to La Liga, just be careful what you wish for.
Scorsese particularly highlights the series of biographies Rossellini made in the 60s of historical figures and, although he does not discuss it in detail, singles out La Prise de pouvoir par Louis XIV for praise.
Things are that upon which our body has a "grip" (prise), while the grip itself is a function of our connaturality with the world's things.