To parry the attack, press the Parry button exactly when your enemy's attack is about to connect.
Source: tatoeba (6167882)
Parry
//ˈpæɹ.i//
Synonyms for "parry" (127 found)
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2 entriesderived
16 entriesetymologically related_to
2 entrieshas context
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4 entriesmanner of
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2 entriesTranslations
75 translations across 22 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- نَاكَفَ verb (avoid, deflect, or ward off)
Bulgarian
4 entries- отбиване noun (a defensive or deflective action; an act of parrying)
- париране noun (a defensive or deflective action; an act of parrying)
- отбивам verb (avoid, deflect, or ward off)
- парирам verb (avoid, deflect, or ward off)
Czech
4 entries- odrazit verb (avoid, deflect, or ward off)
- vyhnout se verb (avoid, deflect, or ward off)
- vyhýbat se verb (avoid, deflect, or ward off)
- vykrýt verb (avoid, deflect, or ward off)
Dutch
3 entries- afweren noun (a defensive or deflective action; an act of parrying)
- ontwijken noun (a defensive or deflective action; an act of parrying)
- afweren verb (avoid, deflect, or ward off)
Estonian
3 entries- põiklema (to parry) verb (avoid, deflect, or ward off)
- tõrjuma (to deflect) verb (avoid, deflect, or ward off)
- vältima verb (avoid, deflect, or ward off)
Finnish
2 entries- torjunta noun (a defensive or deflective action; an act of parrying)
- torjua verb (avoid, deflect, or ward off)
French
2 entries- parade noun (a defensive or deflective action; an act of parrying)
- parer verb (avoid, deflect, or ward off)
German
3 entries- Parade noun (in fencing, simple defensive action designed to deflect)
- abwehren verb (avoid, deflect, or ward off)
- parieren verb (avoid, deflect, or ward off)
Hungarian
4 entries- elhajol verb (avoid, deflect, or ward off)
- elhárít verb (avoid, deflect, or ward off)
- kitér verb (avoid, deflect, or ward off)
- kivéd verb (avoid, deflect, or ward off)
Irish
1 entries- coisc verb (avoid, deflect, or ward off)
Italian
4 entries- deviazione noun (a defensive or deflective action; an act of parrying)
- parata noun (a defensive or deflective action; an act of parrying)
- deviare verb (avoid, deflect, or ward off)
- evitare verb (avoid, deflect, or ward off)
Japanese
2 entries- かわす verb (avoid, deflect, or ward off)
- 受け流す verb (avoid, deflect, or ward off)
Macedonian
4 entries- одби́вање noun (a defensive or deflective action; an act of parrying)
- пари́рање noun (a defensive or deflective action; an act of parrying)
- пари́рање noun (in fencing, simple defensive action designed to deflect)
- о́дбие verb (avoid, deflect, or ward off)
Māori
4 entries- whakangungu noun (a defensive or deflective action; an act of parrying)
- okooko verb (avoid, deflect, or ward off)
- papare verb (avoid, deflect, or ward off)
- whakangungu verb (avoid, deflect, or ward off)
Norwegian
3 entries- finte noun (a defensive or deflective action; an act of parrying)
- parering noun (a defensive or deflective action; an act of parrying)
- parere verb (avoid, deflect, or ward off)
Portuguese
2 entries- parada noun (a defensive or deflective action; an act of parrying)
- parar verb (avoid, deflect, or ward off)
Romanian
2 entries- parare noun (a defensive or deflective action; an act of parrying)
- para verb (avoid, deflect, or ward off)
Russian
2 entries- парирование noun (a defensive or deflective action; an act of parrying)
- пари́ровать verb (avoid, deflect, or ward off)
Serbo-Croatian
3 entries- pariranje noun (a defensive or deflective action; an act of parrying)
- pariranje noun (in fencing, simple defensive action designed to deflect)
- parirati verb (avoid, deflect, or ward off)
Spanish
4 entries- guardia noun (a defensive or deflective action; an act of parrying)
- parada noun (a defensive or deflective action; an act of parrying)
- parada noun (in fencing, simple defensive action designed to deflect)
- quite noun (in fencing, simple defensive action designed to deflect)
Swedish
3 entries- parering noun (a defensive or deflective action; an act of parrying)
- parering noun (in fencing, simple defensive action designed to deflect)
- parera verb (avoid, deflect, or ward off)
Tagalog
2 entries- salag noun (a defensive or deflective action; an act of parrying)
- salag noun (in fencing, simple defensive action designed to deflect)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
I didn't have time to parry Tom's attack.
Source: tatoeba (10117958)
Parry, then strike.
Source: tatoeba (10148304)
One had to be on one's guard when thus confronted and, in the course of my numerous meetings with him, I had on occasion to exercise all my wits and be prepared at a moment's notice to parry a very awkward question, to which I would much rather have given a considered reply.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.