Parrying










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Parry \Par"ry\ (p[a^]r"r[y^]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Parried
(p[a^]r"r[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Parrying.] [F. par['e], p.
p. of parer. See Pare, v. t.]
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1. To ward off; to stop, or to turn aside; as, to parry a
thrust, a blow, or anything that means or threatens harm.
--Locke.
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Vice parries wide
The undreaded volley with a sword of straw.
--Cowper.
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2. To avoid; to shift or put off; to evade.
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The French government has parried the payment of our
claims. --E. Everett.
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parrying [pæriiŋ]
abwehrend; parierend

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parrying

elhárítás


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abwehrend
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parierend
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28 Moby Thesaurus words for "parrying":
bickering, boggling, captiousness, caviling, chicane, chicanery,
dodging, equivocation, evasion, fencing, hairsplitting, hedging,
logic-chopping, nit-picking, paltering, pettifoggery,
prevarication, pussyfooting, quibbling, shifting, shuffle,
shuffling, sidestepping, subterfuge, suppressio veri,
tergiversation, trichoschistism, weasel words



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