prise
- v to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open
- v make an uninvited or presumptuous inquiry
- v regard highly; think much of
- To prise off those tentacles is going to be a hard slog.
- This minor miracle was wrought after five members of the powerful and cautious Appropriations Committee made a sur prise visit to OWI's nine-story Overseas Division in Manhattan.
- For visitors who can prise themselves away from Mike Parr, filmed sewing his face together in a kind of grimacing death mask, there's Adam Geczy's video elegy for the Port Arthur .