Deny

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To declare untrue; contradict.
  • v. To refuse to believe; reject.
  • v. To refuse to recognize or acknowledge; disavow.
  • v. To decline to grant or allow; refuse: deny the student's request; denied the prisoner food or water.
  • v. To give a refusal to; turn down or away: The protesters were determined not to be denied.
  • v. To restrain (oneself) especially from indulgence in pleasures.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To not allow.
  • v. To assert that something is not true.
  • v. To disallow
  • v. to refuse to give or grant something to someone
  • v. To prevent from scoring.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To declare not to be true; to gainsay; to contradict; -- opposed to affirm, allow, or admit.
  • v. To refuse (to do something or to accept something); to reject; to decline; to renounce.
  • v. To refuse to grant; to withhold; to refuse to gratify or yield to.
  • v. To disclaim connection with, responsibility for, and the like; to refuse to acknowledge; to disown; to abjure; to disavow.
  • verb-intransitive. To answer in ��� negative; to declare an assertion not to be true.
  • 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.
  • n. Denial.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. refuse to let have
  • v. deny oneself (something); restrain, especially from indulging in some pleasure
  • v. refuse to recognize or acknowledge
  • v. declare untrue; contradict
  • v. refuse to grant, as of a petition or request
  • v. refuse to accept or believe
  • v. deny formally (an allegation of fact by the opposing party) in a legal suit
  • Verb Form
    denied    denies    denying   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    control    check    contain    hold    moderate    hold in    curb    disavow    keep back    withhold   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    denied   
    Form
    denier    deniability   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    reject    decline    renounce    withhold    disown    abjure    disavow   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Ai    Alai    Ally    Bi    Bligh    Bly    Brunei    Cai    Cy    Dai   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts