Prise vs Wrest - What's the difference?
prise | wrest | Synonyms |
To force (open) with a lever; to pry.
To pull or twist violently.
To obtain by pulling or violent force.
* Milton
(figuratively) To seize.
* Macaulay
* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 12
(figuratively) To twist, pervert, distort.
* Bible, Exodus xxiii. 6
* South
* 1597 , Shakespeare,
To tune with a wrest, or key.
The act of wresting; a wrench or twist; distortion.
(obsolete) Active or motive power.
(music) A key to tune a stringed instrument.
* Sir Walter Scott
A partition in a water wheel by which the form of the buckets is determined.
Prise is a synonym of wrest.
As verbs the difference between prise and wrest
is that prise is while wrest is to pull or twist violently.As an adjective prise
is priced.As a noun wrest is
the act of wresting; a wrench or twist; distortion.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
* ----wrest
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Verb
(en verb)- He wrested the remote control from my grasp and changed the channel.
- Did not she / Of Timna first betray me, and reveal / The secret wrested from me
- They instantly wrested the government out of the hands of Hastings.
- There was one of the tribe of Tarzan who questioned his authority, and that was Terkoz, the son of Tublat, but he so feared the keen knife and the deadly arrows of his new lord that he confined the manifestation of his objections to petty disobediences and irritating mannerisms; Tarzan knew, however, that he but waited his opportunity to wrest the kingship from him by some sudden stroke of treachery, and so he was ever on his guard against surprise.
- Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor.
- their arts of wresting , corrupting, and false interpreting the holy text
- And, I beseech you,
- Wrest once the law to your authority;
- To do a great right do a little wrong,
- And curb this cruel devil of his will.
Noun
(en noun)- (Hooker)
- (Spenser)
- The minstrel wore round his neck a silver chain, by which hung the wrest , or key, with which he tuned his harp.