Other forms: prising, prised, prises
To prise is to force something open with a lever. Prise off the lid.
It takes off or open after it, and it is spelt prize in America. To prise information out of somebody is the figurative use and implies real resistance.
1verbpriseTo force something open with a lever.
“It took a screwdriver to prise the whole panel off.”
prise is a forcing.
Old French prise means a taking or seizure, from prendre, to take.
Old French
prise — seizure; taking; capture
English, today
prise
Built from
From the Middle English - noun prise (“taking of something”), from Old French prise (“seizure; taking; capture”), past participle of prendre (“to take”). a doublet of prize.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA