vi to answer in /// negative; to declare an assertion not to be true.
2. deny ·vt to refuse to grant; to withhold; to refuse to gratify or yield to; as, to deny a request.
3. deny ·vt to declare not to be true; to gainsay; to contradict;
opposed to affirm, allow, or admit.
4. deny ·vt to refuse (to do something or to accept something); to reject; to decline; to renounce.
5. deny ·vt to disclaim connection with, responsibility for, and the like; to refuse to acknowledge; to disown; to abjure; to disavow.