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DENIED
DENY
deny
(verb) declare untrue; contradict; “He denied the allegations”; “She denied that she had taken money”
deny
(verb) refuse to accept or believe; “He denied his fatal illness”
deny
(verb) refuse to recognize or acknowledge; “Peter denied Jesus”
traverse, deny
(verb) deny formally (an allegation of fact by the opposing party) in a legal suit
deny, refuse
(verb) refuse to let have; “She denies me every pleasure”; “he denies her her weekly allowance”
deny, abnegate
(verb) deny oneself (something); restrain, especially from indulging in some pleasure; “She denied herself wine and spirits”
deny
(verb) refuse to grant, as of a petition or request; “The dean denied the students’ request for more physics courses”; “the prisoners were denied the right to exercise for more than 2 hours a day”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
denied
simple past tense and past participle of deny
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Source: Wiktionary
DENY
De*ny", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Denied; p. pr. & vb. n. Denying.] Etym: [OE. denien, denaien, OF. denier, deneer, F. dénier, fr. L. denegare; de- + negare to say no, deny. See Negation.]
1. To declare not to be true; to gainsay; to contradict; -- opposed to affirm, allow, or admit.
Note: We deny what another says, or we deny the truth of an assertion, the force of it, or the assertion itself.
2. To refuse (to do something or to accept something); to reject; to decline; to renounce. [Obs.] "If you deny to dance." Shak.
3. To refuse to grant; to withhold; to refuse to gratify or yield to; as, to deny a request. Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies Pope. To some men, it is more agreeable to deny a vicious inclination, than to gratify it. J. Edwards.
4. To disclaim connection with, responsibility for, and the like; to refuse to acknowledge; to disown; to abjure; to disavow. The falsehood of denying his opinion. Bancroft. Thou thrice denied, yet thrice beloved. Keble. To deny one's self, to decline the gratification of appetites or desires; to practice self-denial. Let him deny himself, and take up his cross. Matt. xvi. 24.
De*ny", v. i.
Definition: To answer in Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid. Gen. xviii. 15.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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CATCH
(verb) grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of; “did you catch that allusion?”; “We caught something of his theory in the lecture”; “don’t catch your meaning”; “did you get it?”; “She didn’t get the joke”; “I just don’t get him”
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