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English

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Etymology

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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.

Pronunciation

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• (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /dɪˈnaɪ/
• (General American) IPA(key): /dəˈnaɪ/, /dɪ-/

• Audio (General American):

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• Rhymes: -aɪ
• Hyphenation: de‧ny

Verb

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deny (third-person singular simple present denies, present participle denying, simple past and past participle denied)

1. (transitive) To disallow or reject. Antonyms: allow, grant I wanted to go to the party, but I was denied.
   • 1847, Anne Brontë, chapter XVI, in Agnes Grey:'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.
   • 1997, Mark Kurlansky, Cod, page 209: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.
2. (transitive) To assert that something is not true. Synonyms: contradict, disclaim, gainsay, refute, withsay Antonyms: affirm, confirm I deny that I was at the party. Everyone knows he committed the crime, but he still denies it.
   • 1604, Jeremy Corderoy, A Short Dialogve, wherein is Proved, that No Man can be Saved without Good VVorkes, 2nd edition, Oxford: Printed by Ioseph Barnes, and are to be sold in Paules Church-yard at the signe of the Crowne, by Simon Waterson, →OCLC, page 40:[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, […]
   • 2011 November 1, James Robinson, Lisa O'Carroll, “Phone hacking: NoW warned about 'culture of illegal information access'”, in The Guardian‎[1]: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.
3. (ditransitive) To refuse to give or grant something to someone. Antonym: grant My father denied me a good education.
   • 1754, Jonathan Edwards, An Inquiry into the Modern Prevailing Notions Respecting that Freedom of the Will which is supposed to be Essential to Moral Agency:To some men, it is more agreeable to deny a vicious inclination, than to gratify it.
   • 2008 April 12, “Mother denied daughter's organs”, in BBC‎[2]:A mother who urgently needs a kidney transplant has branded the system which denied her the organs of her dying daughter as "ridiculous".
4. To take something away from someone; to deprive of.
5. (sports, transitive) To prevent from scoring.
   • 2011 November 3, Chris Bevan, “Rubin Kazan 1 - 0 Tottenham”, in BBC Sport‎[3]: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.
6. To disclaim connection with, responsibility for, etc.; to refuse to acknowledge; to disown; to abjure; to disavow. Synonyms: disclaim, forswear, renounce; see also Thesaurus:repudiate Jesus prophesized that by the time the cock crowed, Peter would have denied him three times.
   • 1834–1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent, volume (please specify |volume=I to X), Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company [et al.], →OCLC:the falsehood of denying his opinion
   • 1827, John Keble, The Christian Year:thou thrice denied, yet thrice beloved
7. (obsolete) To refuse (to do or accept something).
   • c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:if you deny to dance

Usage notes

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• This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing). See Appendix:English catenative verbs.
• Deny can have a connotation that the denial is false; he denied knowing the accused has a more suspicious tone than he said he did not know the accused. However, in some formal usages, e.g. medical records, it can have a more neutral sense (patient denies chest pain).
• Although common, the use of this word with the preposition of is frequently proscribed. Instead of denied of, the expressions deprive of or simply deny are recommended.[1]

Conjugation

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infinitive	(to) deny
present tense	past tense
1st-person singular	deny	denied, denyed†
2nd-person singular	deny, deniest†
3rd-person singular	denies, denieth†
plural	deny
subjunctive	deny	denied, denyed†
imperative	deny	—
participles	denying	denied, denyed†

† Archaic or obsolete.

Derived terms

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• delie
• deniability
• deniable
• deniance
• denier
• denyingly
• deny of
• deny oneself
• indeniably
• justice delayed is justice denied
• redeny
• self-denying
• undeniable
• undeniably
• undenied

Related terms

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• denial

English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₁eǵ- (0 c, 10 e)

Translations

[edit] disallow — see forbid to assert that something is not true

Afrikaans: ontken Albanian: mohoj (sq) Arabic: نَفَى (nafā) Egyptian Arabic: انكر (ankar) Hijazi Arabic: انكر (ankar), جحد (jaḥad) Armenian: ժխտել (hy) (žxtel), հերքել (hy) (herkʻel) Asturian: negar Azerbaijani: danmaq, inkar etmək Basque: ukatu, ezeztatu Belarusian: адмаўля́ць impf (admawljácʹ) Bulgarian: отри́чам (bg) impf (otríčam), опроверга́вам (bg) impf (oprovergávam) Catalan: negar (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 否認 / 否认 (zh) (fǒurèn), 否定 (zh) (fǒudìng) Czech: popřít (cs), zapřít Danish: benægte, nægte (da) Dutch: ontkennen (nl) Esperanto: nei Finnish: kieltää (fi), kiistää (fi) French: nier (fr), démentir (fr) Friulian: neâ Galician: negar (gl) Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: leugnen (de), bestreiten (de), dementieren (de) Gothic: 𐌻𐌰𐌿𐌲𐌽𐌾𐌰𐌽 (laugnjan) Greek: αρνούμαι (el) (arnoúmai), διαψεύδω (el) (diapsévdo) Ancient: ἀρνέομαι (arnéomai) Hebrew: הכחיש (he) (hikhkhísh) Hungarian: tagad (hu) Icelandic: neita (is) Indonesian: pungkir (id) Irish: séan Italian: negare (it) Japanese: 否む (ja) (inamu), 打ち消す (ja) (uchikesu), 否定する (ja) (hitei suru) Khmer: ប្រកែក (km) (prɑkaek) Korean: 부정하다 (ko) (bujeonghada), 부인하다 (ko) (bu'inhada) Ladino: inyegar Latin: negō (la), abnego, denego, infitior Lithuanian: neigti Lombard: negà (lmo) Malay: nafi (ms) Maori: whawhati Middle English: denyen Mongolian: please add this translation if you can Ngazidja Comorian: ukadhibisha Norwegian: Bokmål: benekte, fornekte Nynorsk: fornekte Old English: wiþsacan Polish: negować (pl) impf, zaprzeczać (pl) impf, przeczyć (pl) impf, kwestionować (pl) impf Portuguese: negar (pt) Romanian: nega (ro) Russian: отрица́ть (ru) impf (otricátʹ); отверга́ть (ru) impf (otvergátʹ), отве́ргнуть (ru) pf (otvérgnutʹ), опроверга́ть (ru) impf (oprovergátʹ), опрове́ргнуть (ru) pf (oprovérgnutʹ) Scottish Gaelic: àicheidh, diùlt Sicilian: nigari (scn) Slovak: popierať impf, poprieť pf Spanish: negar (es), impugnar (es), salir al paso de Swedish: förneka (sv) Thai: ปฏิเสธ (th) (bpà-dtì-sèet) Turkish: inkâr etmek (tr) Ukrainian: запере́чувати (zaperéčuvaty), відкида́ти (vidkydáty) Venetan: negar Vietnamese: chối (vi), chối bỏ Volapük: noön (vo) Walloon: noyî (wa), disminti (wa)

to refuse to give or grant something to someone

Dutch: weigeren (nl) French: refuser (fr) German: verweigern (de) Hungarian: megtagad (hu) Icelandic: synja um Irish: séan ar Latin: dēmō Spanish: denegar (es) Swedish: neka (sv) Ukrainian: відхилити pf (vidxylyty)

to take something away from someone; to deprive of — see deprive sports: to prevent from scoring to disclaim connection with, responsibility for, etc.; to refuse to acknowledge; to disown; to abjure; to disavow — see disown,‎ abjure,‎ disavow

References

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1. ^ https://brians.wsu.edu/2016/05/25/denied-of/

Anagrams

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• dyne, Endy, E.D.N.Y., EDNY, Ynde

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Verb

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deny

1. alternative form of denyen

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