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"ref": "1919, Sax Rohmer, The Quest of the Sacred Slipper",
"text": "I think he must have been trying to prise open that box yonder when he was attacked.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "c. 1925, Jack Lindsay, translation of Lysistrata",
"text": "Come, force the gates with crowbars, prise them apart!"
},
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"ref": "2004, BBC News",
"text": "Most people used pliers, scissors, rubber gloves and knives to try to prise open products.",
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"To force (open) with a lever; to pry."
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"sense": "to force open with a lever, to pry",
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"sense": "to force open with a lever, to pry",
"word": "vääntää"
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"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "berḳeṭit gaxsna",
"sense": "to force open with a lever, to pry",
"word": "ბერკეტით გახსნა"
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"sense": "to force open with a lever, to pry",
"word": "aufstemmen"
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"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to force open with a lever, to pry",
"word": "whakatiriwhana"
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "vzlamyvatʹ",
"sense": "to force open with a lever, to pry",
"word": "взламывать"
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"sense": "to force open with a lever, to pry",
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"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to force open with a lever, to pry",
"word": "bända (upp)"
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"(obsolete) An enterprise or adventure."
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"text": "I think he must have been trying to prise open that box yonder when he was attacked.",
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{
"ref": "c. 1925, Jack Lindsay, translation of Lysistrata",
"text": "Come, force the gates with crowbars, prise them apart!"
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"text": "Most people used pliers, scissors, rubber gloves and knives to try to prise open products.",
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"To force (open) with a lever; to pry."
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to force open with a lever, to pry",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "páčit"
},
{
"code": "cs",
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"sense": "to force open with a lever, to pry",
"tags": [
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"word": "vypáčit"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to force open with a lever, to pry",
"word": "vääntää"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to force open with a lever, to pry",
"word": "kangeta"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "berḳeṭit gaxsna",
"sense": "to force open with a lever, to pry",
"word": "ბერკეტით გახსნა"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to force open with a lever, to pry",
"word": "aufstemmen"
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{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to force open with a lever, to pry",
"word": "whakatiriwhana"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vzlamyvatʹ",
"sense": "to force open with a lever, to pry",
"word": "взламывать"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vskryvatʹ",
"sense": "to force open with a lever, to pry",
"word": "вскрывать"
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to force open with a lever, to pry",
"word": "bända (upp)"
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"word": "prise"
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