deny

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

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

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To say “no” or “nay” to; gainsay; contradict.
2. To declare to be untrue or untenable; reject as false or erroneous; refuse to admit, accept, or believe: as, to deny an accusation, or the truth of a statement or a theory; to deny a, doctrine.
3. To refuse; refuse to grant or give; withhold or withhold from: as, to deny bread to the hungry; to deny a request.
4. To reject as non-existent or unreal; refuse to believe in the existence of; disallow the reality of.
5. To refuse access to; keep from being seen; withhold from view or intercourse: as, he denied himself to visitors.
6. To refuse to acknowledge; disavow; renounce; disown.
7. To forbid.
8. To contradict; repel; disprove.
9. Synonyms To disclaim, renounce, abjure.
10. To answer in the negative; refuse to comply.
11. n. Denial.

Wiktionary

1. v. transitive To not allow.
2. v. transitive To assert that something is not true.
3. v. transitive To disallow
4. v. transitive to refuse to give or grant something to someone
5. v. sports, transitive To prevent from scoring.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To declare not to be true; to gainsay; to contradict; -- opposed to affirm, allow, or admit.
2. v. obsolete To refuse (to do something or to accept something); to reject; to decline; to renounce.
3. v. To refuse to grant; to withhold; to refuse to gratify or yield to.
4. v. To disclaim connection with, responsibility for, and the like; to refuse to acknowledge; to disown; to abjure; to disavow.
5. v. To answer in ��� negative; to declare an assertion not to be true.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. refuse to let have
2. v. deny oneself (something); restrain, especially from indulging in some pleasure
3. v. refuse to recognize or acknowledge
4. v. declare untrue; contradict.
5. v. refuse to grant, as of a petition or request
6. v. refuse to accept or believe
7. v. deny formally (an allegation of fact by the opposing party) in a legal suit