Usually means: Refuse to admit or accept.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word deny:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. deny: Merriam-Webster
  2. deny: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. deny: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. deny: Collins English Dictionary
  5. deny: Vocabulary.com
  6. Deny, deny: Wordnik
  7. deny: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. deny: Wiktionary
  9. deny: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. deny: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. deny: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. deny: Dictionary.com
  13. deny: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. deny: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Deny (Default song), Deny (album), Deny (band), Deny (disambiguation): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Deny: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. deny: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. deny: Rhymezone
  19. deny: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. deny: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. deny: FreeDictionary.org
  22. deny: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. deny: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. deny: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. deny: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. deny: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. deny: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. deny: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deny: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deny: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deny: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See denied as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To disallow or reject.
verb:  (transitive) To assert that something is not true.
verb:  (ditransitive) To refuse to give or grant something to someone.
verb:  To take something away from someone; to deprive of.
verb:  (sports, transitive) To prevent from scoring.
verb:  To disclaim connection with, responsibility for, etc.; to refuse to acknowledge; to disown; to abjure; to disavow.
verb:  (obsolete) To refuse (to do or accept something).

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