Combat and Parrying

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Combat noun - Active fighting during the course of a war.

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Parrying and combat are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Parrying" instead a noun "Combat".

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Combat and parrying are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Combat" instead a noun "Parrying".

Nearby Words: parry, parried

What Janson ends up doing is parrying his opponent's first strike, then knocking the sword out with his hands and beating the crap out of him in unarmed combat.

Source: Combat Pragmatist / Literature
If Neverwinter Nights is any indication, its combat advantage comes from how an opponent parrying one blade is bound to get slashed by the other.

Source: Double Weapon
When Eden Sinclair (played by Rhona Mitra) gets into close combat, she either dodges most attacks from opponents bigger than her (rather than parrying them) and/or uses some kind of weapon that's realistically useful against a stronger opponent.

Source: Waif-Fu

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