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prise

noun as in lever

Strongest matches

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However, Schmidt's tenure ended with two losses and he was unable to prise the Bledisloe from the All Blacks.

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Liverpool are interested in the 25-year-old Sweden forward but know they would have to break the British transfer record to even stand a chance of prising him from the Magpies.

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On Monday, McCullum would have had to march on to the field to prise the ball from Stokes' hand.

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Inside was a note which had become glued together with age, so experts used special techniques and chemicals to prise it apart.

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In the past, some of the documents, which are made from a thick paper-like material called papyrus, were prised open but they crumbled into pieces.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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