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語源

From the 中期英語 noun prise (“taking of something”), from Old French prise (“seizure; taking; capture”), past participle of prendre (“to take”). Doublet of prize.

発音

• IPA: /pɹaɪz/
• 韻: -aɪz
• 異形同音異義語: pries, prize

動詞

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:

     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, →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

名詞

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.

参考

• price
• prise de fer

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