DEFINITION
DENY:
• (v. t.) To declare not to be true; to gainsay; to contradict; --
opposed to affirm, allow, or admit.
• (v. t.) To refuse (to do something or to accept something); to
reject; to decline; to renounce.
• (v. t.) To refuse to grant; to withhold; to refuse to gratify or
yield to; as, to deny a request.
• (v. t.) To disclaim connection with, responsibility for, and the
like; to refuse to acknowledge; to disown; to abjure; to disavow.
• (v. i.) To answer in /// negative; to declare an assertion not to
be true.