Dictionary entry

Prise

Pronunciation: /prʌɪz/

Pronunciation

/prʌɪz/

Myanmar Meaning

prise, (esp Amer) prize [praiz](v) to use force to dislodge (something) from its position: ကော်ထုတ်သည်။ ကုတ်ကော်သည်။ ကန့်သည်။ He prised open the lid with a knife. သူသည် မောင်းချဓားဖြင့် အဖုံးကို ကန့်သည်။

Definition

prise /praÇz/ (also esp US prize /praÇz/, US pry /praÇ/) v ကလန္႔သည္။ ေကာ္သည္။ ကေလာ္သည္။ ခြဲသည္။ She used a screwdriver to prise off/up the lid. ❍ The referee needed all his strength to prise the two boxers apart. ❍ The box had been prised open. ❏ prise sth out of sb [ PHRV ] အစ္ေအာက္သည္။ ႏိႈက္ထုတ္ သည္။ She refused to tell us, and nothing we could do could prise the information out of her.

Examples

  1. prise /praÇz/ (also esp US prize /praÇz/, US pry /praÇ/) v ကလန္႔သည္။ ေကာ္သည္။ ကေလာ္သည္။ ခြဲသည္။ She used a screwdriver to prise off/up the lid.
  2. The referee needed all his strength to prise the two boxers apart.
  3. The box had been prised open. ❏ prise sth out of sb [ PHRV ] အစ္ေအာက္သည္။ ႏိႈက္ထုတ္ သည္။ She refused to tell us, and nothing we could do could prise the information out of her.