- (v.t.) To refuse to grant; to withhold; to refuse to gratify or yield to; as, to deny a request.
- (v.i.) To answer in /// negative; to declare an assertion not to be true.
- (v.t.) To declare not to be true; to gainsay; to contradict; -- opposed to affirm, allow or admit.
- (v.t.) To refuse (to do something or to accept something); to reject; to decline; to renounce.
- (v.t.) To disclaim connection with, responsibility for, and the like; to refuse to acknowledge; to disown; to abjure; to disavow.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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