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1. To move or force, especially in an effort to get something open
   "Raccoons managed to prise the lid off the garbage pail";
   - pry, prize [N. Amer], lever, jimmy [N. Amer], jemmy [Brit]
    
2. Make an uninvited or presumptuous inquiry
   "They prised the information out of him";
   - pry, prize [N. Amer]

Sounds like: principles, princ, prise, prize

Derived forms: prised, prises, prising

Type of: extort, open, open up, wring from