Definition of "prised" [prised]

• Simple past tense and past participle of prise. (verb)

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• "I once attended a very high powered university group where the other academics swapped reminiscences about having to have The Odyssey prised from their childish fingers and I could not compete."
• "The day I give up books will be the day they are prised out of my cold, dead hands."
• "The winner's prize is nearly £300,000, and if Henderson's Long Run is first past the post, particularly if it completes a rare double with the Champion, Nicholls will sense the championship being prised from his grasp."