deny
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From Middle English denyen, from Old French denoier (“to deny, to repudiate”) (French dénier), from Latin denegare (“to deny, to refuse”), from de- (“away”) and negare (“to refuse”), the latter ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *né (“no, not”). Doublet of denegate.
Inflected forms:
form: denies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: denying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: denied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: denied
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: deny
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: deny
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: denied
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: denyed
pos: verb
tags: archaic
first-person
past
singular
form: deny
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: deniest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: denied
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: denyed
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: denies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: denieth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: denied
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: denyed
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
singular
third-person
form: deny
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: denied
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: denyed
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
plural
form: deny
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: denied
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: denyed
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
subjunctive
form: deny
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: denying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: denied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: denyed
pos: verb
tags: archaic
participle
past
Senses:
gloss: To disallow or reject.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I wanted to go to the party, but I was denied.
'Do! pray do! I shall be the most miserable of men if you don't. You cannot be so cruel as to deny me a favour so easily granted and yet so highly prized!' pleaded he as ardently as if his life depended on it.
The proposition that foreigners may be depriving British workers of their cod is politically potent. […] This argument, of course, denies the long British history of overfishing and the fact that the dread Spanish supertrawlers, which are now so universally denounced, wre a British invention.
gloss: To assert that something is not true.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to deny a rumour to deny an allegation
I deny that I was at the party.
Everyone knows he committed the crime, but he still denies it.
[N]ow ſuch a liue vngodly, vvithout a care of doing the wil of the Lord (though they profeſſe him in their mouths, yea though they beleeue and acknowledge all the Articles of the Creed, yea haue knowledge of the Scripturs) yet if they liue vngodly, they deny God, and therefore ſhal be denied, […]
But Myler and Crone told the committee in September that they had made Murdoch aware at the 10 June 2008 meeting that hacking was not restricted to a single journalist. They claimed this was the reason Murdoch agreed to settle the Taylor's case. James Murdoch subsequently wrote to the committee to deny this.
gloss: To refuse to give or grant something to someone.
pos: verb
tags: ditransitive
examples: My father denied me a good education.
To some men, it is more agreeable to deny a vicious inclination, than to gratify it.
A mother who urgently needs a kidney transplant has branded the system which denied her the organs of her dying daughter as "ridiculous".
gloss: To take something away from someone; to deprive of.
pos: verb
gloss: To prevent from scoring.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Another Karadeniz cross led to Cudicini's first save of the night, with the Spurs keeper making up for a weak punch by brilliantly pushing away Christian Noboa's snap-shot.
Two more top-class stops followed quickly afterwards, first from Natcho's rasping shot which was heading into the top corner, and then to deny Ryazantsev at his near post.
gloss: To disclaim connection with, responsibility for, etc.; to refuse to acknowledge; to disown; to abjure; to disavow.
pos: verb
examples: Jesus prophesied that by the time the cock crowed, Peter would have denied him three times.
the falsehood of denying his opinion
thou thrice denied, yet thrice beloved
Permission to leave these confines has only been granted on the conditions that we deny ourselves and blend in with the Straight Monolith
gloss: To refuse (to do or accept something).
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: if you deny to dance
Related words: denial
Derived words: delie
deniability
deniable
deniance
denier
denyingly
deny of
deny oneself
indeniably
justice delayed is justice denied
redeny
self-denying
undeniable
undeniably
undenied
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