Usually means: Refuse personal desires or needs.
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  1. deny oneself: Merriam-Webster
  2. deny oneself: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
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Definitions from Wiktionary (deny oneself)

▸ verb:  To decline the gratification of appetites, desires, impulses, or needs; to practise self-denial.

Similar:
mortify, abstain, abnegate, refrain, fast, help oneself, decline, deny of, deny, refuse, more...

Opposite:
indulge, allow, treat oneself, gratify

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Similar:
mortify, abstain, abnegate, refrain, fast, help oneself, decline, deny of, deny, refuse, more...

Opposite:
indulge, allow, treat oneself, gratify



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