verb (parries, parrying, parried, parried)
1 to defend yourself against sb who is attacking you by pushing their hand, arm, weapon, etc. to one side
SYNDEFLECT:
[VN] He parried a blow to his head. * The shot was parried by the goalie. [also V]
2 to avoid having to answer a difficult question, criticism, etc., especially by replying in the same way:
[VN] She parried all questions about their relationship. [also Vspeech]
parry noun (plural parries)
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for parry is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does parry appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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