Do you deny that you went there?
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Deny
//dɪˈnaɪ//
Synonyms for "deny" (197 found)
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Strong matches (59)
Related words (98)
join issue uponkeepkeep backlaughmisbelievenegatenegativenonplusnot acceptnot admitnot believenot buynot swallownullifyopposeoppugnoutlawoverthrowoverturnoverwhelm
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15 entrieshas context
1 entriesis a
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6 entriesrelated to
3 entriessimilar
2 entriesTranslations
109 translations across 59 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- ontken verb (to assert that something is not true)
Albanian
1 entries- mohoj verb (to assert that something is not true)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἀρνέομαι verb (to assert that something is not true)
Arabic
4 entries- انكر verb (to assert that something is not true)
- انكر verb (to assert that something is not true)
- جحد verb (to assert that something is not true)
- نَفَى verb (to assert that something is not true)
Armenian
2 entries- ժխտել verb (to assert that something is not true)
- հերքել verb (to assert that something is not true)
Asturian
1 entries- negar verb (to assert that something is not true)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- danmaq verb (to assert that something is not true)
- inkar etmək verb (to assert that something is not true)
Basque
2 entries- ezeztatu verb (to assert that something is not true)
- ukatu verb (to assert that something is not true)
Belarusian
1 entries- адмаўля́ць verb (to assert that something is not true)
Bulgarian
2 entries- опроверга́вам verb (to assert that something is not true)
- отри́чам verb (to assert that something is not true)
Catalan
1 entries- negar verb (to assert that something is not true)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 否定 verb (to assert that something is not true)
- 否認 /否认 verb (to assert that something is not true)
Czech
4 entries- odepřít verb (to refuse to give or grant something to someone)
- odpírat verb (to refuse to give or grant something to someone)
- popírat verb (to assert that something is not true)
- popřít verb (to assert that something is not true)
Danish
2 entries- benægte verb (to assert that something is not true)
- nægte verb (to assert that something is not true)
Dutch
2 entries- ontkennen verb (to assert that something is not true)
- weigeren verb (to refuse to give or grant something to someone)
Esperanto
1 entries- nei verb (to assert that something is not true)
Finnish
2 entries- kieltää verb (to assert that something is not true)
- kiistää verb (to assert that something is not true)
French
3 entries- démentir verb (to assert that something is not true)
- nier verb (to assert that something is not true)
- refuser verb (to refuse to give or grant something to someone)
Friulian
1 entries- neâ verb (to assert that something is not true)
Galician
1 entries- negar verb (to assert that something is not true)
German
4 entries- bestreiten verb (to assert that something is not true)
- dementieren verb (to assert that something is not true)
- leugnen verb (to assert that something is not true)
- verweigern verb (to refuse to give or grant something to someone)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐌻𐌰𐌿𐌲𐌽𐌾𐌰𐌽 verb (to assert that something is not true)
Greek
2 entries- αρνούμαι verb (to assert that something is not true)
- διαψεύδω verb (to assert that something is not true)
Hebrew
1 entries- הכחיש verb (to assert that something is not true)
Hungarian
2 entries- megtagad verb (to refuse to give or grant something to someone)
- tagad verb (to assert that something is not true)
Icelandic
2 entries- neita verb (to assert that something is not true)
- synja um verb (to refuse to give or grant something to someone)
Indonesian
1 entries- pungkir verb (to assert that something is not true)
Irish
2 entries- séan verb (to assert that something is not true)
- séan ar verb (to refuse to give or grant something to someone)
Italian
1 entries- negare verb (to assert that something is not true)
Japanese
3 entries- 否む verb (to assert that something is not true)
- 否定する verb (to assert that something is not true)
- 打ち消す verb (to assert that something is not true)
Khmer
1 entries- ប្រកែក verb (to assert that something is not true)
Korean
2 entries- 부인하다 verb (to assert that something is not true)
- 부정하다 verb (to assert that something is not true)
Ladino
1 entries- inyegar verb (to assert that something is not true)
Latin
4 entries- abnego verb (to assert that something is not true)
- denego verb (to assert that something is not true)
- dēmō verb (to refuse to give or grant something to someone)
- infitior verb (to assert that something is not true)
Lithuanian
1 entries- neigti verb (to assert that something is not true)
Lombard
1 entries- negà verb (to assert that something is not true)
Malay
1 entries- nafi verb (to assert that something is not true)
Middle English
1 entries- denyen verb (to assert that something is not true)
Māori
1 entries- whawhati verb (to assert that something is not true)
Ngazidja Comorian
1 entries- ukadhibisha verb (to assert that something is not true)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- benekte verb (to assert that something is not true)
- fornekte verb (to assert that something is not true)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- fornekte verb (to assert that something is not true)
Old English
1 entries- wiþsacan verb (to assert that something is not true)
Polish
4 entries- kwestionować verb (to assert that something is not true)
- negować verb (to assert that something is not true)
- przeczyć verb (to assert that something is not true)
- zaprzeczać verb (to assert that something is not true)
Portuguese
1 entries- negar verb (to assert that something is not true)
Romanian
1 entries- nega verb (to assert that something is not true)
Russian
4 entries- опрове́ргнуть verb (to assert that something is not true)
- опроверга́ть verb (to assert that something is not true)
- отве́ргнуть verb (to assert that something is not true)
- отверга́ть verb (to assert that something is not true)
Scottish Gaelic
2 entries- diùlt verb (to assert that something is not true)
- àicheidh verb (to assert that something is not true)
Sicilian
1 entries- nigari verb (to assert that something is not true)
Slovak
2 entries- popierať verb (to assert that something is not true)
- poprieť verb (to assert that something is not true)
Spanish
4 entries- denegar verb (to refuse to give or grant something to someone)
- impugnar verb (to assert that something is not true)
- negar verb (to assert that something is not true)
- salir al paso de verb (to assert that something is not true)
Swedish
2 entries- förneka verb (to assert that something is not true)
- neka verb (to refuse to give or grant something to someone)
Thai
1 entries- ปฏิเสธ verb (to assert that something is not true)
Turkish
1 entries- inkâr etmek verb (to assert that something is not true)
Ukrainian
3 entries- відкида́ти verb (to assert that something is not true)
- відхилити verb (to refuse to give or grant something to someone)
- запере́чувати verb (to assert that something is not true)
Venetan
1 entries- negar verb (to assert that something is not true)
Vietnamese
2 entries- chối verb (to assert that something is not true)
- chối bỏ verb (to assert that something is not true)
Volapük
1 entries- noön verb (to assert that something is not true)
Walloon
2 entries- disminti verb (to assert that something is not true)
- noyî verb (to assert that something is not true)
Sample sentences
25 total sentences available.
It is no use your trying to deny it.
Source: tatoeba (17992)
We should deny our children things too sweet.
Source: tatoeba (23283)
No one can deny the fact that there is no smoke without fire.
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