Deny

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  • transitive verb. To declare untrue; assert to be false.
  • transitive verb. To refuse to believe; reject.
  • transitive verb. To refuse to recognize or acknowledge; disavow.
  • transitive verb. undefined
  • transitive verb. To decline to grant or allow; refuse.
  • transitive verb. To give a refusal to; turn down or away.
  • transitive verb. To restrain (oneself) especially from indulgence in pleasures.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To say “no” or “nay” to; gainsay; contradict.
  • To declare to be untrue or untenable; reject as false or erroneous; refuse to admit, accept, or believe: as, to deny an accusation, or the truth of a statement or a theory; to deny a, doctrine.
  • To refuse; refuse to grant or give; withhold or withhold from: as, to deny bread to the hungry; to deny a request.
  • To reject as non-existent or unreal; refuse to believe in the existence of; disallow the reality of.
  • To refuse access to; keep from being seen; withhold from view or intercourse: as, he denied himself to visitors.
  • To refuse to acknowledge; disavow; renounce; disown.
  • To forbid.
  • To contradict; repel; disprove.
  • Synonyms To disclaim, renounce, abjure.
  • To answer in the negative; refuse to comply.
  • noun. Denial.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To answer in ��� negative; to declare an assertion not to be true.
  • transitive verb. To declare not to be true; to gainsay; to contradict; -- opposed to affirm, allow, or admit.
  • transitive verb. To refuse (to do something or to accept something); to reject; to decline; to renounce.
  • transitive verb. To refuse to grant; to withhold; to refuse to gratify or yield to.
  • transitive verb. To disclaim connection with, responsibility for, and the like; to refuse to acknowledge; to disown; to abjure; to disavow.
  • transitive verb. to decline the gratification of appetites or desires; to practice self-denial.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To not allow.
  • verb. To assert that something is not true.
  • verb. To disallow
  • verb. to refuse to give or grant something to someone
  • verb. To prevent from scoring.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. refuse to let have
  • verb. deny oneself (something); restrain, especially from indulging in some pleasure
  • verb. refuse to recognize or acknowledge
  • verb. declare untrue; contradict
  • verb. refuse to grant, as of a petition or request
  • verb. refuse to accept or believe
  • verb. deny formally (an allegation of fact by the opposing party) in a legal suit
  • Word Usage
    "But whosoever shall deny me before men, _him will I also deny_ before my Father which is in heaven "(Ibid, 32, 33)."
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    Form
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    check  contain  control  curb  disavow  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Ai  Alai  Ally  Bi  Bligh  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    abandon  abjure  abjure  abstain  answer  
    variant
    denied  
    verb-form
    denied  denies  denying