Definizione monolingua

deny

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

1. (transitive) To not allow.

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

   • 1847, Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey Chapter XVI

     Do! pray do! I shall be the most miserable of men if you dont. 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.

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.

   • 2011 November 1, James Robinson and Lisa OCarroll, “Phone hacking: NoW warned about culture of illegal information access”, The Guardian:

     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 Taylors case. James Murdoch subsequently wrote to the committee to deny this.

3. (transitive) To disallow
4. (transitive) to refuse to give or grant something to someone

   My father denied me a good education

   • 2008 April 12, “Mother denied daughters organs”, BBC:

     A mother who urgently needs a kidney transplant has branded the system which denied her the organs of her dying daughter as ""ridiculous"".

5. (sports, transitive) To prevent from scoring.
   • 2011 November 3, Chris Bevan, “Rubin Kazan 1 - 0 Tottenham”, BBC Sport:

     Another Karadeniz cross led to Cudicinis first save of the night, with the Spurs keeper making up for a weak punch by brilliantly pushing away Christian Noboas snap-shot.
     Two more top-class stops followed quickly afterwards, first from Natchos rasping shot which was heading into the top corner, and then to deny Ryazantsev at his near post.

Definizione dizionario deny

	rinnegare
	Rifiutare radicalmente e solennemente di riconoscere.
	To refuse strongly and solemnly to own or acknowledge.

negare

abnegare

contestare

contraddire

declinare

dire di no

francese

opporsi

ricusare

rifiutare

rigettare

smantire

smentire

Altri significati:

To not allow.

To assert that something is not true.

to assert that something is not true

To reject the truth or validity of something.

to not allow