Prise vs Uprise - What's the difference?
prise | uprise |
To force (open) with a lever; to pry.
(archaic) To rise; to get up; to appear from below the horizon.
* 1874 , (Marcus Clarke), (For the Term of His Natural Life) Chapter VI
(archaic) To have an upward direction or inclination
* Tennyson
To rebel or revolt; to take part in an uprising.
* 1998 , William B. Griffen, Apaches at War and Peace (page 92)
As verbs the difference between prise and uprise
is that prise is while uprise is (archaic) to rise; to get up; to appear from below the horizon.As an adjective prise
is priced.As a noun uprise is
the act of rising; appearance above the horizon; rising.prise
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Alternative forms
* (verb) prizeSee also
* priceVerb
(pris)- 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
Anagrams
* ----uprise
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Verb
- The great sky uprose from this silent sea without a cloud. The stars hung low in its expanse, burning in a violent mist of lower ether.
- Uprose the mystic mountain range.
- They had decided to uprise rather than face punishment, and they wanted all the help they could get.