Definition of deny

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Deny (v. t.) To declare not to be true; to gainsay; to contradict; -- opposed to affirm, allow, or admit..

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Disclaim :: Disclaim (v. t.) To deny, as a claim; to refuse..
Renay :: Renay (v. t.) To deny; to disown.
Renege :: Renege (v. t.) To deny; to disown.
Disown :: Disown (v. t.) To refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to one's self; to disavow or deny, as connected with one's self personally; as, a parent can hardly disown his child; an author will sometimes disown his writings..
Renege :: Renege (v. i.) To deny.
Traverse :: Traverse (a.) To deny formally, as what the opposite party has alleged. When the plaintiff or defendant advances new matter, he avers it to be true, and traverses what the other party has affirmed. To traverse an indictment or an office is to deny it..
Denyingly :: Denyingly (adv.) In the manner of one denies a request.
Debar :: Debar (v. t.) To cut off from entrance, as if by a bar or barrier; to preclude; to hinder from approach, entry, or enjoyment; to shut out or exclude; to deny or refuse; -- with from, and sometimes with of..
Deny :: Deny (v. t.) To refuse (to do something or to accept something); to reject; to decline; to renounce.
Obversion :: Obversion (n.) The act of immediate inference, by which we deny the opposite of anything which has been affirmed; as, all men are mortal; then, by obversion, no men are immortal. This is also described as immediate inference by privative conception..
Abnegate :: Abnegate (v. t.) To deny and reject; to abjure.
Disaffirm :: Disaffirm (v. t.) To assert the contrary of; to contradict; to deny; -- said of that which has been asserted.
Denying :: Denying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Den.
Negative :: Negative (n.) That side of a question which denies or refuses, or which is taken by an opposing or denying party; the relation or position of denial or opposition; as, the question was decided in the negative..
Reneye :: Reneye (v. t.) To deny; to reject; to renounce.
Negation :: Negation (adv.) The act of denying; assertion of the nonreality or untruthfulness of anything; declaration that something is not, or has not been, or will not be; denial; -- the opposite of affirmation..
Paulianist :: Paulianist (n.) A follower of Paul of Samosata, a bishop of Antioch in the third century, who was deposed for denying the divinity of Christ..
Disacknowledge :: Disacknowledge (v. t.) To refuse to acknowledge; to deny; to disown.
Contradict :: Contradict (v. t.) To assert the contrary of; to oppose in words; to take issue with; to gainsay; to deny the truth of, as of a statement or a speaker; to impugn..
Disavow :: Disavow (v. t.) To refuse strongly and solemnly to own or acknowledge; to deny responsibility for, approbation of, and the like; to disclaim; to disown; as, he was charged with embezzlement, but he disavows the crime..
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