noun
Meaning 1
An enterprise or adventure.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/pɹaɪz/
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rhymes with -aɪz
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homophone: pries
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homophone: prize
noun
Meaning 2
Obsolete form of prize.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
To force (open) with a lever; to pry.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
To extract something that is difficult to obtain.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- prise information out of someone
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 5
regard highly; think much of
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- I respect his judgement
- We prize his creativity
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: respect, esteem, value, prize
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: see, consider, reckon, view, regard
Narrower terms: think the world of, reverence, fear, revere, venerate, admire, look up to
verb
Meaning 6
to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open:
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- The burglar jimmied the lock
- Raccoons managed to pry the lid off the garbage pail
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: pry, prize, lever, jimmy
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: open, open up
verb
Meaning 7
make an uninvited or presumptuous inquiry
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- They pried the information out of him
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: pry
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: extort, wring from
History
Etymology
From the Middle English noun prise (“taking of something”), from Old French prise (“seizure; taking; capture”), past participle of prendre (“to take”). Doublet of prize.
Across languages
Translations
14 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: разбивам — to force open with a lever, to pry
- Bulgarian: разбия — to force open with a lever, to pry
- Czech: páčit — to force open with a lever, to pry
- Czech: vypáčit — to force open with a lever, to pry
- Dutch: wrikken — to force open with a lever, to pry
- Dutch: openwrikken — to force open with a lever, to pry
- Finnish: vääntää — to force open with a lever, to pry
- Finnish: kangeta — to force open with a lever, to pry
- Georgian: ბერკეტით გახსნა (berḳeṭit gaxsna) — to force open with a lever, to pry
- German: aufstemmen — to force open with a lever, to pry
- Māori: whakatiriwhana — to force open with a lever, to pry
- Russian: взламывать (vzlamyvatʹ) — to force open with a lever, to pry
- Russian: вскрывать (vskryvatʹ) — to force open with a lever, to pry
- Swedish: bända (upp) — to force open with a lever, to pry