Object

• thrust: He spun round - just managed to parry a vicious upward thrust aimed at his heart.

• blow: The target may still parry blows aimed specifically at them.

• shot: Medley had to parry a long shot with a striker right in front of him.

• attack: He could no longer parry the fierce attacks of the latter by simple avoidance.

Converse of object

• make: Svensson had already come close to scoring, but was denied by the Addicks goalkeeper, who made an impressive one-handed parry.

Modifying Another Word

• away: He looked certain to score but his angled effort was too close to Grant who again got down well to parry away.

• superbly: But Marriott was equal to Barker's spot kick and threw himself to his left to parry superbly.

• straight: Booth hooked a shot which Beeney parried straight to Newsome who scored from 5 yards - he was Lucas ' man.

• brilliantly: Two minutes later Hahnemann was even more alert as he a brilliantly parried a point-blank Darren Huckerby shot after Harewood had played him clear.

Followed by a transitive particle

• away: He first produced a flying save to parry away a powerful Mahon left foot drive across goal.

Preposition: with

• weapon: The target is unable to defend themselves except to parry with a weapon.