parry
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- n (fencing) blocking a lunge or deflecting it with a circular motion of the sword
- n a return punch (especially by a boxer)
- v impede the movement of (an opponent or a ball)
- v avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
- As if to parry that move, Palin's lawyer, Thomas Van Flein, met with the personnel board's investigator on Monday and promised that he would furnish a list of who would be .
- This ignorance is heartbreaking to fencers, who delight in giving ten-minute explanations of the attack, parry, return and continuation, which make up a "fencing conversation .
- Tendulkar waits for the bowler's delivery like a martial arts black belt ready to parry an opponentmoving quickly into position, flashing his bat to guide the ball where he will.