dodge vs parry

dodge

verb
  • To avoid; to sidestep. 

  • To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place. 

  • To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way. 

  • To decrease the exposure for certain areas of an image in order to make them darker (compare burn). 

adj
  • Dodgy. 

noun
  • An act of dodging. 

  • A trick, evasion or wile. (Now mainly in the expression tax dodge.) 

  • A line of work. 

parry

verb
  • To avoid, deflect, or ward off (an attack, a blow, an argument, etc.). 

noun
  • A simple defensive action designed to deflect an attack, performed with the forte of the blade. 

  • 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. 

  • A defensive or deflective action; an act of parrying. 

How often have the words dodge and parry occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )