• (America) IPA: /dɪˈnaɪ/

deny

1. (transitive) To disallow or reject.

   I wanted to go to the party, but I was denied.

2. (transitive) To assert that something is not true.

   I deny that I was at the party.

   Everyone knows he committed the crime, but he still denies it.

3. (ditransitive) To refuse to give or grant something to someone.

   My father denied me a good education.

   • To some men, it is more agreeable to deny a vicious inclination, than to gratify it.

4. To take something away from someone; to deprive of.
5. (sports, transitive) To prevent from scoring.
6. To disclaim connection with, responsibility for, etc.; to refuse to acknowledge; to disown; to abjure; to disavow.

   • the falsehood of denying his opinion

   • thou thrice denied, yet thrice beloved

7. (obsolete) To refuse (to do or accept something).
   • c. 1595–1596, William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act V, scene ii]:

     if you deny to dance

• (assert something is not true) gainsay, contradict, withsay, refute, disclaim

• (disallow) allow
• (assert something is true) confirm, affirm

• denial

• French: nier, démentir
• German: leugnen, bestreiten, dementieren
• Italian: negare
• Portuguese: negar
• Russian: отрица́ть
• Spanish: negar