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Abnegate

To deny and reject; to abjure.

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Verb group 4

Deny 84% connected

To declare not to be true; to gainsay; to contradict; -- opposed to affirm, allow, or admit.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Deny 84% connected

To declare not to be true; to gainsay; to contradict; -- opposed to affirm, allow, or admit.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Refuse 84% connected

To deny, as a request, demand, invitation, or command; to decline to do or grant.

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Refuse 84% connected

To deny, as a request, demand, invitation, or command; to decline to do or grant.

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Broader term 8

Check 76% connected

A word of warning denoting that the king is in danger; such a menace of a player's king by an adversary's move as would, if it were any other piece,…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Contain 76% connected

To hold within fixed limits; to comprise; to include; to inclose; to hold.

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Control 76% connected

A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register.

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Curb 76% connected

To bend or curve

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Deny 76% connected

To declare not to be true; to gainsay; to contradict; -- opposed to affirm, allow, or admit.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Hold 76% connected

The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Moderate 76% connected

Kept within due bounds; observing reasonable limits; not excessive, extreme, violent, or rigorous; limited; restrained

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Surrender 76% connected

To yield to the power of another; to give or deliver up possession of (anything) upon compulsion or demand; as, to surrender one's person to an enemy…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Abnegation 74% connected

a denial; a renunciation.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Abnegation 74% connected

a denial; a renunciation.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Abnegator 74% connected

One who abnegates, denies, or rejects anything.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Abnegator 74% connected

One who abnegates, denies, or rejects anything.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Denier 74% connected

One who denies; as, a denier of a fact, or of the faith, or of Christ.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Denier 74% connected

One who denies; as, a denier of a fact, or of the faith, or of Christ.

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Self-abnegation 74% connected

Self-denial; self-renunciation; self-sacrifice.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Self-abnegation 74% connected

Self-denial; self-renunciation; self-sacrifice.

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Synonym 1

Deny 92% connected

To declare not to be true; to gainsay; to contradict; -- opposed to affirm, allow, or admit.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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