0 to use force to lift something off something else, for example by pressing a tool against a fixed point or to separate things using force:
One has the rare opportunity to prise underneath the 'official mind' of patriotism, and to gauge public reaction through press reports and periodical articles.
Why don't you prise the shop open with your own hands, he asks.
His original greenware had been prised for its array of moulded ornaments and variety of glazed effects.
These reforms prised the trade unions away from prime responsibility for questions of fairness at work.
This is because parties cannot prise loose support from a rival party's sympathizers by mimicking this rival's ideology.
In the poems on divinities, a gap between claims about that which is seemingly permanent and the truth of loss they attempt to hide is prised wide open.
