·vi To answer in /// negative; to declare an assertion not to be true.
II. Deny ·vt To refuse to grant; to Withhold; to refuse to gratify or yield to; as, to deny a request.
III. Deny ·vt To declare not to be true; to Gainsay; to Contradict;
— opposed to affirm, allow, or admit.
IV. Deny ·vt To refuse (to do something or to accept something); to Reject; to Decline; to Renounce.
V. Deny ·vt To disclaim connection with, responsibility for, and the like; to refuse to acknowledge; to Disown; to Abjure; to Disavow.