Usually means: Deflected or avoided an attack.
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  1. parried: Merriam-Webster
  2. parried: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. parried: Collins English Dictionary
  4. parried: Vocabulary.com
  5. parried: Wordnik
  6. parried: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. parried: Wiktionary
  8. Parried, parried: Dictionary.com
  9. Parried: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Parried: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. parried: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. parried: FreeDictionary.org
  13. parried: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Parry)

verb:  To avoid, deflect, or ward off (an attack, a blow, an argument, etc.).
noun:  A defensive or deflective action; an act of parrying.
noun:  (fencing) A simple defensive action designed to deflect an attack, performed with the forte of the blade.
noun:  (combat sports and martial arts) A defensive move intended to change the direction of an incoming strike to make it miss its intended target, rather than block and absorb it; and typically performed with an open hand in a downward or sideways slapping motion.
noun:  A surname from Welsh.
noun:  A unisex given name.
noun:  A hamlet in Division No.2, Saskatchewan, Canada.
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