0 past simple and past participle of prise
1 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:
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.
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.
It can be prised open.
They can change very quickly, and when they decide to attack, the jaws cannot be prised open.
We have not prised it away from that borough in the past.
I refer to vandalism and theft of anything that moves, or that can be prised off or dug up.
Money has in the past been prised from members of the public and has then been defaulted upon.
