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Prided vs Prised - What's the difference?

prided | prised |

As verbs the difference between prided and prised

is that prided is past tense of pride while prised is past tense of prise.

prided

English

Verb

(head)
  • (pride)
  • * 1820 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow , Washington Irving
  • *:"Ichobod prided himself upon his dancing as much as upon his vocal powers. Not a limb, not a fibre about him was idle; and to have seen his loosely hung frame in full motion and clattering about the room you would have thought Saint Vitus himself, that blessed patron of the dance, was figuring before you in person."

    • prised

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (prise)

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    prise

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (verb) prize

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) An enterprise.
    • (Spenser)

    • See also

    * price

    Verb

    (pris)
  • To force (open) with a lever; to pry.
    • 1919: I think he must have been trying to prise open that box yonder when he was attacked. — , The Quest of the Sacred Slipper
    c. 1925: Come, force the gates with crowbars, prise them apart! — Jack Lindsay, translation of Lysistrata
    2004: Most people used pliers, scissors, rubber gloves and knives to try to prise open products. — BBC News

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