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Meanings of prise in English

Portuguese
venerar
Catalan
apreciar
Spanish
respetar

Regard highly; think much of.

      venerar

      To move or force, especially in an effort to get something open.

            Usage of prise in English
            1
            And yet you came to prise me free of the Harlan family.
            Woken furies
            2
            Yet United are clear they could prise him from the Spanish club.
            The Guardian
            3
            Can the new manager prise the 30-year-old away from the German champions?
            The Guardian
            4
            It would cost around £15m to prise him from the German club.
            The Guardian
            5
            Even now, in this window, other clubs sought to prise him away.
            The Guardian
            6
            You'll have to prise the remote out of my cold dead hands.
            The Guardian
            7
            Then with the spit and the tusker we will prise it out!
            Jonathan strange and mr norrell
            8
            Probing fingers crawled across his face to prise open his screwed eyes.
            Faerie Wars
            9
            Chelsea are likely to need his creativity to prise Everton open.
            The Guardian
            10
            Tottenham did not actually have to play particularly well to prise Villa part.
            The Guardian
            11
            Here it is difficult to prise apart French and un-French elements.
            The Guardian
            12
            I had to prise open her hand and shove the money into it.
            NS13 Zero Hour (2010)
            13
            The Conservatives will try to prise it back with local businessman Paul Bristow.
            The Guardian
            14
            That's a chink, one we can prise open with our presence.
            The Naked God
            15
            Two workers were desperately trying to prise the steel pole from the earth.
            The genesis secret
            16
            Before long they prise open the car door and pull your driver out.
            Reuters
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            Translations for prise
            Portuguese
            venerarprezar
            Prise through the time
            Prise across language varieties
            United Kingdom
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