deny

Academic Word List, sublist 7.

About 15.25 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To disallow or reject.

   I wanted to go to the party, but I was denied.

2. verb To assert that something is not true.

   to deny a rumour to deny an allegation

3. verb To refuse to give or grant something to someone.

   My father denied me a good education.

4. verb To take something away from someone; to deprive of.
5. verb To prevent from scoring.
6. verb To disclaim connection with, responsibility for, etc.; to refuse to acknowledge; to disown; to abjure; to disavow.

   Jesus prophesied that by the time the cock crowed, Peter would have denied him three times.

7. verb To refuse (to do or accept something).

Similar words

refuse traverse disallow repudiate disavowal disavow reject refusal invalidate forbid

Often followed by

that the it this to them him their a

Word family

deniable denial denials denied denies denying denyingly