Synonyms of the word

parry

• n. A defensive or deflective action; an act of parrying.
• n. (fencing) A simple defensive action designed to deflect an attack, performed with the forte of the blade.
• v. To avoid, deflect, or ward off (an attack, a blow, an argument, etc.).

avoid

• v. (transitive) To keep away from; to keep clear of; to endeavor not to meet; to shun; to abstain from.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To make empty; to clear.
• v. (transitive, now law) To make void, to annul; to refute (especially a contract).
• v. (transitive, law) To defeat or evade; to invalidate. Thus, in a replication, the plaintiff may deny the…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To emit or throw out; to void.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To leave, evacuate; to leave as empty, to withdraw or come away from.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To get rid of.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To retire; to withdraw, depart, go away.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To become void or vacant.

biff

• n. A sudden, sharp blow or punch.
• n. (sports) A wipeout.
• v. (transitive) To strike such a blow against.
• v. (New Zealand, slang, transitive) To discard; to throw out; to throw away.
• v. (sports) To wipe out; to faceplant; to fall.

block

• n. A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
• n. A chopping block; cuboid base for cutting or beheading.
• n. A group of urban lots of property, several acres in extent, not crossed by public streets.
• n. A residential building consisting of flats.
• n. The distance from one street to another in a city that is built (approximately) to a grid pattern.
• n. Interference or obstruction of cognitive processes.
• n. (slang) The human head.
• n. A wig block: a simplified head model upon which wigs are worn.
• n. A mould on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.
• n. A set of sheets (of paper) joined together at one end.
• n. (computing) A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors (see cluster).
• n. (programming) A region of code in a program that acts as a single unit, such as a function or loop.
• n. (cryptography) A fixed-length group of bits making up part of a message.
• n. (rigging) A case with one or more sheaves/pulleys, used with ropes to increase or redirect force, for…
• n. (chemistry) A portion of a macromolecule, comprising many units, that has at least one feature not present…
• n. Something that prevents something from passing (see blockage).
• n. (sports) An action to interfere with the movement of an opposing player or of the object of play (ball,…
• n. (cricket) A shot played by holding the bat vertically in the path of the ball, so that it loses momentum…
• n. (volleyball) A defensive play by one or more players meant to deflect a spiked ball back to the hitter’s…
• n. (philately) A joined group of four (or in some cases nine) postage stamps, forming a roughly square shape.
• n. A section of split logs used as fuel.
• n. (Britain) Solitary confinement.
• n. A cellblock.
• n. (falconry) The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.
• n. (printing, dated) A piece of hard wood on which a stereotype or electrotype plate is mounted.
• n. (obsolete) A blockhead; a stupid fellow; a dolt.
• n. A section of a railroad where the block system is used.
• n. (cricket) The position of a player or bat when guarding the wicket.
• n. (cricket) A blockhole.
• n. (cricket) The popping crease.
• n. Misspelling of bloc.
• v. (transitive) To fill (something) so that it is not possible to pass.
• v. (transitive) To prevent (something or someone) from passing.
• v. (transitive) To prevent (something from happening or someone from doing something).
• v. (transitive, sports) To impede an opponent.
• v. (transitive, theater) To specify the positions and movements of the actors.
• v. (transitive, cricket) To hit with a block.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To play a block shot.
• v. (transitive) To disable communication via telephone, instant messaging, etc., with an undesirable someone.
• v. (computing, intransitive) To wait.
• v. (transitive) To stretch or mould (a knitted item, a hat, etc.) into the desired shape.

blocking

• v. present participle of block.
• n. The act by which something is blocked; an obstruction.
• n. (theater) The precise movement and positioning of actors on a stage in order to facilitate the performance…
• n. Blocks used to support (a building, etc.) temporarily.
• n. (computing) A feature that prevents a keyboard from registering multiple simultaneous keypresses that…

circumvent

• v. (transitive) to avoid or get around something; to bypass.
• v. (transitive) to surround or besiege.
• v. (transitive) to outwit or outsmart.

clout

• n. Influence or effectiveness, especially political.
• n. (regional, informal) A blow with the hand.
• n. (informal) A home run.
• n. (archery) The center of the butt at which archers shoot; probably once a piece of white cloth or a nail…
• n. (regional, dated) A swaddling cloth.
• n. (archaic) A cloth; a piece of cloth or leather; a patch; a rag.
• n. (archaic) An iron plate on an axletree or other wood to keep it from wearing; a washer.
• n. (obsolete) A piece; a fragment.
• v. To hit, especially with the fist.
• v. To cover with cloth, leather, or other material; to bandage, patch, or mend with a clout.
• v. To stud with nails, as a timber, or a boot sole.
• v. To guard with an iron plate, as an axletree.
• v. To join or patch clumsily.

counter

• n. An object (now especially a small disc) used in counting or keeping count, or as a marker in games, etc.
• n. (curling) Any stone lying closer to the center than any of the opponent's stones.
• n. A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted; a shop tabletop on which…
• n. One who counts, or reckons up; a reckoner.
• n. A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of…
• n. (historical) The prison attached to a city court; a Counter.
• n. (grammar) A class of word used along with numbers to count objects and events, typically mass nouns. Although…
• n. In a kitchen, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, whereon various food preparations…
• n. In a bathroom, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, which holds the washbasin.
• n. (wrestling) A proactive defensive hold or move in reaction to a hold or move by one's opponent.
• n. (programming) A variable, memory location, etc. whose contents are incremented to keep a count.
• n. (Internet) A hit counter.
• adv. Contrary, in opposition; in an opposite direction.
• n. (nautical) The overhanging stern of a vessel above the waterline.
• n. The piece of a shoe or a boot around the heel of the foot (above the heel of the shoe/boot).
• v. To contradict, oppose.
• v. (boxing) To return a blow while receiving one, as in boxing.
• v. To take action in response to; to respond.
• adj. Contrary; opposite; contrasted; opposed; adverse; antagonistic.
• adv. In opposition; in an opposite direction; contrariwise.
• adv. In the wrong way; contrary to the right course.
• adv. At or against the front or face.
• n. (obsolete) An encounter.
• n. (nautical) The after part of a vessel's body, from the water line to the stern, below and somewhat forward…
• n. (music) Alternative form of contra Formerly used to designate any under part which served for contrast…
• n. The breast, or that part of a horse between the shoulders and under the neck.
• n. The back leather or heel part of a boot.
• n. (typography) The area of a letter that is entirely or partially enclosed by a letter form or a symbol.

counterpunch

• n. A punch delivered in response to a previous punch by somebody else, such as an opponent in a boxing match.
• n. (printing, historical) A punch used in the cutting of other punches, often used to create the negative…
• v. (boxing) To deliver a punch designed to exploit an opponent's momentary defensive weakness caused by a…
• v. To deliver a competitive response to an opponent designed to exploit a weakness created by the opponent's…

deflect

• v. (transitive) To make (something) deviate from its original path.
• v. (intransitive) To deviate from its original path.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To avoid addressing (questions, criticism, etc.).
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To divert (attention, etc.).

dodge

• v. To avoid by moving suddenly out of the way.
• v. (figuratively) To avoid; to sidestep.
• v. (archaic) To go hither and thither.
• v. (photography) To decrease the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them darker (compare…
• v. (transitive) To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
• n. An act of dodging.
• n. A trick, evasion or wile.

duck

• v. (intransitive) To lower the head or body in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
• v. (transitive) To lower (something) into water; to thrust or plunge under liquid and suddenly withdraw.
• v. (intransitive) To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to plunge one's head into water…
• v. (transitive) To lower (the head) in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
• v. (intransitive) To bow.
• v. (transitive) To evade doing something.
• v. (transitive) To lower the volume of (a sound) so that other sounds in the mix can be heard more clearly.
• n. An aquatic bird of the family Anatidae, having a flat bill and webbed feet.
• n. Specifically, an adult female duck; contrasted with drake and with duckling.
• n. (uncountable) The flesh of a duck used as food.
• n. (cricket) A batsman's score of zero after getting out. (short for duck's egg, since the digit "0" is round…
• n. (slang) A playing card with the rank of two.
• n. A partly-flooded cave passage with limited air space.
• n. A building intentionally constructed in the shape of an everyday object to which it is related.
• n. A marble to be shot at with another marble (the shooter) in children's games.
• n. (US) A cairn used to mark a trail.
• n. One of the weights used to hold a spline in place for the purpose of drawing a curve.
• n. A tightly-woven cotton fabric used as sailcloth.
• n. (in the plural) Trousers made of such material.
• n. A term of endearment; pet; darling.
• n. (Midlands) Dear, mate (informal way of addressing a friend or stranger).

elude

• v. (transitive) To evade, or escape from someone or something, especially by using cunning or skill.
• v. (transitive) To shake off a pursuer; to give someone the slip.
• v. (transitive) To escape understanding of; to be incomprehensible to.

evade

• v. (transitive) To get away from by cunning; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to…
• v. (transitive) To escape; to slip away; — sometimes with from.
• v. (intransitive) To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding.

fence

• n. A thin, human-constructed barrier which separates two pieces of land or a house perimeter.
• n. Someone who hides or buys and sells stolen goods, a criminal middleman for transactions of stolen goods,…
• n. Skill in oral debate.
• n. The art or practice of fencing.
• n. A guard or guide on machinery.
• n. (figuratively) A barrier, for example an emotional barrier.
• n. (computing, programming) A memory barrier.
• v. (transitive) To enclose, contain or separate by building fence.
• v. (transitive) To defend or guard.
• v. (transitive) To engage in the selling or buying of stolen goods.
• v. (intransitive, sports) To engage in (the sport) fencing.
• v. (intransitive, equestrianism) To jump over a fence.

fudge

• n. (chiefly uncountable) Light or frothy nonsense.
• n. (chiefly uncountable) A type of very sweet candy or confection. Often used in the US synonymously with…
• n. (countable) A deliberately misleading or vague answer.
• n. (uncountable, dated) A made-up story; nonsense; humbug.
• n. (countable) A less than perfect decision or solution; an attempt to fix an incorrect solution after the…
• v. (intransitive) To try to avoid giving a direct answer; to waffle or equivocate.
• v. To alter something from its true state, as to hide a flaw or uncertainty. Always deliberate, but not necessarily…
• interj. (minced oath) Colloquially, used in place of fuck.

hedge

• n. A thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes; especially, such a thicket planted as a fence between any two…
• n. (Britain, chiefly Devon and Cornwall) A mound of earth, stone- or turf-faced, often topped with bushes,…
• n. (pragmatics) A non-committal or intentionally ambiguous statement.
• n. (finance) Contract or arrangement reducing one's exposure to risk (for example the risk of price movements…
• n. (Britain, Ireland, noun adjunct) Used attributively, with figurative indication of a person's upbringing,…
• v. (transitive) To enclose with a hedge or hedges.
• v. (transitive) To obstruct with a hedge or hedges.
• v. (transitive, finance) To offset the risk associated with.
• v. (intransitive) To avoid verbal commitment.
• v. (intransitive) To construct or repair a hedge.
• v. (intransitive, finance) To reduce one's exposure to risk.

lick

• n. The act of licking; a stroke of the tongue.
• n. The amount of some substance obtainable with a single lick.
• n. A quick and careless application of anything, as if by a stroke of the tongue, or of something which acts…
• n. A place where animals lick minerals from the ground.
• n. A small watercourse or ephemeral stream. It ranks between a rill and a stream.
• n. (colloquial) A stroke or blow.
• n. (colloquial) A bit.
• n. (music) A short motif.
• n. Speed. (Always qualified by good, fair, or a similar adjective.).
• v. To stroke with the tongue.
• v. (colloquial) To defeat decisively, particularly in a fight.
• v. (colloquial) To overcome.
• v. (vulgar, slang) To perform cunnilingus.
• v. (colloquial) To do anything partially.
• v. (of flame, waves etc.) To lap.
• v. To lap; to take in with the tongue.

poke

• v. To prod or jab with an object such as a finger or a stick.
• v. To stir up a fire to remove ash or promote burning.
• v. (figuratively) To rummage as in to poke about in.
• v. (transitive, computing) To modify the value stored in (a memory address).
• v. To put a poke on.
• v. To thrust with the horns; to gore.
• v. (informal, Internet) To notify.
• v. (transitive) To thrust (something) in a particular direction such as the tongue.
• n. A prod, jab, or punch.
• n. (US, slang) A lazy person; a dawdler.
• n. (US, slang) A stupid or uninteresting person.
• n. (US) A device to prevent an animal from leaping or breaking through fences, consisting of a yoke with…
• n. (computing) The storage of a value in a memory address, typically to modify the behaviour of a program…
• n. (now regional) A sack or bag.
• n. A long, wide sleeve; a poke sleeve.
• n. (Scotland, Northern Ireland) An ice cream cone.
• n. (dialectal) Pokeweed.
• n. (Hawaii) Slices or cubes of raw fish or other raw seafood, mixed with sesame oil, seaweed, sea salt, herbs,…

punch

• n. (countable) A hit or strike with one's fist.
• n. (uncountable) Power, strength, energy.
• n. (uncountable) Impact.
• n. (uncountable) A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) causing a video game character to punch.
• v. (transitive) To strike with one's fist.
• v. (transitive, of cattle) To herd.
• v. (transitive) To operate (a device or system) by depressing a button, key, bar, or pedal, or by similar…
• v. (transitive) To enter (information) on a device or system.
• v. (transitive) To hit (a ball or similar object) with less than full force.
• v. (transitive) To make holes in something (rail ticket, leather belt, etc).
• v. To thrust against; to poke.
• n. (countable) A device, generally slender and round, used for creating holes in thin material, for driving…
• n. (countable) A mechanism for punching holes in paper or other thin material.
• n. (countable) A hole or opening created with a punch.
• n. (piledriving) An extension piece applied to the top of a pile; a dolly.
• n. A prop, as for the roof of a mine.
• v. To employ a punch to create a hole in or stamp or emboss a mark on something.
• v. To mark a ticket.
• n. A beverage, generally containing a mixture of fruit juice and some other beverage, often alcoholic.

sidestep

• n. A step to the side.
• n. A motion, physical or metaphorical, to avoid or dodge something.
• v. (intransitive) To step to the side.
• v. (transitive) To avoid or dodge.

skirt

• n. An article of clothing, usually worn by women and girls, that hangs from the waist and covers the lower…
• n. The part of a dress or robe that hangs below the waist.
• n. A loose edging to any part of a dress.
• n. A petticoat.
• n. (pejorative, slang) A woman.
• n. (Britain, colloquial) Women collectively, in a sexual context.
• n. (Britain, colloquial) Sexual intercourse with a woman.
• n. Border; edge; margin; extreme part of anything.
• n. The diaphragm, or midriff, in animals.
• v. To be on or form the border of.
• v. To move around or along the border of; to avoid the center of.
• v. To cover with a skirt; to surround.