0 past simple and past participle of parry
1 to defend yourself from a weapon or an attack by pushing the weapon away or by putting something between your body and the weapon
Whether fighting one-to-one or in pitched battles, the players struck real blows that rang true, which in turn had to be skilfully and accurately parried.
On the face of it, then, the threat of occasionalism can be parried.
This can obviously be parried if intensified investment can be procured.
Clay in some miraculous way parried the thrust and grappled with his opponent.
In another variation which is also found in chin na, the initial attack is parried and then the defender applies a lock on the attacker.
An attack which has failed (i.e. has missed or been parried) is no longer an attack.
He retains this priority until his attack either misses, runs out of momentum, or is parried.
The crisis in foreign trade was answered, and partly parried, with commercial innovations.
