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Deny

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

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Verb group 4

Abnegate 84% connected

To deny and reject; to abjure.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Abnegate 84% connected

To deny and reject; to abjure.

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Refuse 84% connected

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

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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Manner of action 7

Abnegate 76% connected

To deny and reject; to abjure.

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Disavow 76% connected

To refuse strongly and solemnly to own or acknowledge; to deny responsibility for, approbation of, and the like; to disclaim; to disown; as, he was c…

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Disclaim 76% connected

To renounce all claim to deny; ownership of, or responsibility for; to disown; to disavow; to reject.

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Refuse 76% connected

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

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Reject 76% connected

To cast from one; to throw away; to discard.

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Repudiate 76% connected

To cast off; to disavow; to have nothing to do with; to renounce; to reject.

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Withhold 76% connected

To hold back; to restrain; to keep from action.

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Broader term 14

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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Contradict 76% connected

To assert the contrary of; to oppose in words; to take issue with; to gainsay; to deny the truth of, as of a statement or a speaker; to impugn.

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Contravene 76% connected

To meet in the way of opposition; to come into conflict with; to oppose; to contradict; to obstruct the operation of; to defeat.

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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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Disavow 76% connected

To refuse strongly and solemnly to own or acknowledge; to deny responsibility for, approbation of, and the like; to disclaim; to disown; as, he was c…

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Disown 76% connected

To refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to one's self; to disavow or deny, as connected with one's self personally; as, a parent can hardly diso…

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Hold 76% connected

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

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Keep 76% connected

To care; to desire.

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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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Renounce 76% connected

To declare against; to reject or decline formally; to refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to one; to disclaim; as, to renounce a title to land…

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Repudiate 76% connected

To cast off; to disavow; to have nothing to do with; to renounce; to reject.

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Withhold 76% connected

To hold back; to restrain; to keep from action.

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Derivationally related 6

Abnegation 74% connected

a denial; a renunciation.

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Abnegation 74% connected

a denial; a renunciation.

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Denial 74% connected

The act of gainsaying, refusing, or disowning; negation; -- the contrary of affirmation.

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Denial 74% connected

The act of gainsaying, refusing, or disowning; negation; -- the contrary of affirmation.

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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Denier 74% connected

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

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Synonym 3

Abnegate 92% connected

To deny and reject; to abjure.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Refuse 92% connected

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

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Traverse 92% connected

Lying across; being in a direction across something else; as, paths cut with traverse trenches.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Antonym 4

Acknowledge 94% connected

To of or admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in; as, to acknowledge the being of a God.

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Acknowledge 94% connected

To of or admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in; as, to acknowledge the being of a God.

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Allow 94% connected

To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.

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Allow 94% connected

To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.

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