deny

tr.v., -nied, -ny·ing, -nies.

1. To declare untrue; contradict.
2. To refuse to believe; reject.
3. To refuse to recognize or acknowledge; disavow.
4. 1. To decline to grant or allow; refuse: deny the student's request; denied the prisoner food or water.
   2. To give a refusal to; turn down or away: The protesters were determined not to be denied.
   3. To restrain (oneself) especially from indulgence in pleasures.

[Middle English denien, from Old French denier, from Latin dēnegāre : dē-, de- + negāre, to say no.]

SYNONYMS   deny, contradict, contravene, disaffirm, gainsay, negate, traverse. These verbs mean to refuse to admit the existence, truth, or value of: denied the rumor; contradicted the statement; contravene a conclusion; disaffirm a suggestion; trying to gainsay the evidence; negated the allegations; traverse an indictment.
ANTONYM  affirm

verb

1. To refuse to admit the truth, reality, value, or worth of: contradict, contravene, controvert, disaffirm, gainsay, negate, negative, oppugn. Law traverse. See affirm/deny/argue.
2. To be unwilling to grant: disallow, refuse, turn down, withhold. See accept/reject.
3. To refuse to recognize or acknowledge: disacknowledge, disavow, disclaim, disown, reject, renounce, repudiate. Idioms: turn one's back on. See accept/reject.

v

Definition: disagree, renounce, decline
Antonyms: accede, acknowledge, admit, affirm, agree, allow, concede, confess, corroborate, go along, grant

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To reject. Frege argued influentially that denial is not a separate activity from assertion, but that to deny a proposition is to assert that it is false, or to assert its negation.

This entry contains information applicable to United States law only.

To refuse to acknowledge something; to disclaim connection with or responsibility for an action or statement. To deny someone of a legal right is to deprive him or her of that right.

A denial is a part of a legal pleading that refutes the facts set forth by the opposing side. A general denial takes exception to all the material elements of the complaint or petition, and a specific denial addresses a particular allegation in issue.

IN BRIEF: Contradict. Also: To refuse to grant or give.

I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything. — Garrison Keillor.

Dansk (Danish)
v. tr. - nægte, dementere, frakende, afvise, ikke lade opleve, nægte adgang til

idioms:

• deny oneself    pålægge sig afsavn, ikke unde sig

Nederlands (Dutch)
ontkennen, ontzeggen, (ver)loochenen

Français (French)
v. tr. - nier (avoir fait), refuser d'admettre, rejeter, refuser qch à qn, renier (une religion)

idioms:

• deny oneself    se priver de

Deutsch (German)
v. - verweigern, verleugnen, bestreiten

idioms:

• deny oneself    sich versagen

Ελληνική (Greek)
v. - (απ)αρνούμαι, διαψεύδω, ανακαλώ

idioms:

• deny oneself    δείχνω αυταπάρνηση

Italiano (Italian)
negare

Português (Portuguese)
v. - negar

idioms:

• deny oneself    sacrificar-se

Русский (Russian)
запрещать, отрицать

idioms:

• deny oneself    отказать себе в чем-н.

Español (Spanish)
v. tr. - negar, denegar, rechazar, desmentir

idioms:

• deny oneself    abstenerse de, negarse a sí mismo

Svenska (Swedish)
v. - förneka, dementera

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
否定, 否认, 拒绝...的要求, 拒绝给予, 节制

idioms:

• deny oneself    节制, 戒除

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
v. tr. - 否定, 否認, 拒絕...的要求, 拒絕給予, 節制

idioms:

• deny oneself    節制, 戒除

한국어 (Korean)
v. tr. - 아니라고 말하다, 동의하지 않다, 부정하다

idioms:

• deny oneself    욕구를 억제하다, 면회 사절하다, 헌신하다

日本語 (Japanese)
v. - 真実でないと言う, 否定する, 信じていないと言う, 否認する, 拒む, 物を与えない

idioms:

• deny oneself    克己する

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(فعل) ينكر, يرفض, يحرم, يتبرأ من شئ‏

עברית (Hebrew)
v. tr. - ‮הכחיש, התכחש, חשך, מנע, שלל, ניער חוצנו מ-‬

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