Definition of "prising" [prising]

• Present participle of prise. (verb)

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• "So far, since the 2006 Act came into force last May, we have succeeded in prising just one Legislative Competence Order out of Westminster, celebrated the other day, relating to additional learning needs."
• "It would also be an opportunity for women to unlearn some of their own entrenched bad habits – namely prising personal responsibility away from men, to the point where we control them and they resent us."
• "BUT ... our “hero” sobered up in the morning and, discovering that the phone was now functionless, he set about prising the thing open."