Definitions for prise

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Spelling: [prahyz]
IPA: /praɪz/

Prise is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 85 anagrams from letters in prise (eiprs).

Definitions for prise

noun

  1. leverage.
  2. a lever.

verb (used with object)

  1. prize3 .
  2. pry2 .

Origin of prise

1350-1400; Middle English prise Middle French: a hold, grasp Latin pre(hē)nsa. See prize1

Examples for prise

Thy uncle with Sarah and prise dined at Hampstead yesterday; the dear circle there as well as one could expect.

Come, she can hardly have 'lost' it, since I had to get a screwdriver to prise it out!

Your prise d'armes must hurt you, I think, if you were not victorious.

For Churchill, politics and literature were two sides of the same career,” Rose writes, “impossible to prise apart.

I saw you prise out the jewel from the image of the god—with your short bloody spear.

Then Ariobarzanes departed the listes: and the Prince withoute any great resistance wan the prise and victory.

"It's one of those tins you prise up," said Marjorie jauntily.

Suppose your astonishment if a lady in an assembly were to offer you a prise?

Page 8, changed "clumsey" to "clumsy" and "prise" to "prize."

He cannot prise open a man's heart with a crowbar, as it were, and force Himself inside.

Word Value for prise
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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