DENY meaning: Refuse to admit or accept

We found 34 dictionaries that define the word deny:

General (27 matching dictionaries)

deny: Merriam-Webster.com
deny: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
deny: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
deny: Collins English Dictionary
deny: Vocabulary.com
Deny, deny: Wordnik
deny: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
deny: Wiktionary
deny: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
deny: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
deny: Infoplease Dictionary
deny: Dictionary.com
deny: Online Etymology Dictionary
deny: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Deny (Default song), Deny (album), Deny (band), Deny (disambiguation): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Deny: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
deny: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
deny: Rhymezone
deny: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
deny: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
deny: Free Dictionary
deny: Mnemonic Dictionary
deny: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
deny: Dictionary/thesaurus
deny: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)

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Business (3 matching dictionaries)

deny: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
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deny: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

deny: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

deny: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

deny: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ verb:  (transitive) To disallow or reject.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To assert that something is not true.
▸ verb:  (ditransitive) To refuse to give or grant something to someone.
▸ verb:  To take something away from someone; to deprive of.
▸ verb:  (sports, transitive) To prevent from scoring.
▸ verb:  To disclaim connection with, responsibility for, etc.; to refuse to acknowledge; to disown; to abjure; to disavow.
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To refuse (to do or accept something).

Similar:

refuse, traverse, reject, affirm, refute, downplay, ignore, acknowledge, assert, confirm, more...

Opposite:

affirm, confirm, acknowledge, accept, admit

Types:

refute, reject, contradict, dispute, disavow, repudiate, negate, gainsay, more...

Phrases:

deny yourself, deny oneself, to deny one's self, to deny ones self, Operation Deny Flight, more...

Adjectives:

london, wrong, calmest, south, old, beautiful, select, self, choquet, wise, beloved

Colors:

black, gray, dark red, navy blue, charcoal, maroon, olive, burgundy, forest green, midnight blue

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