to deny, contradict, refuse.

= withsay, v. 1 2 3.

To maintain to be false, impugn. to false (a doom) (Scots Law): ‘to deny the equity of a sentence, and appeal to a superior court’ (Jamieson).

To affirm the contrary of, contradict, deny (a fact or statement); also, to deny the existence of.

To contradict or gainsay (anything stated or alleged); to declare to be untrue or untenable, or not… Const. with simple object (formerly sometimes a p…

transitive. To renounce, repudiate; to disavow; to reverse (a judgment or sentence). Obsolete.

transitive. To deny; to refuse. Also (occasionally) intransitive.

transitive. To deny (a statement, fact, etc.).

transitive. Originally: †to deny (a matter) (obsolete). Now: (paired with yea) to turn (something) down.

transitive. To deny (a thing); to disavow, refuse to acknowledge (a person). rare.

To deny (a statement).

= deny, v.

transitive. To contradict (an opinion); to dispute, debate (an issue, etc.). Obsolete.

transitive. To deny (with that-clause as object). Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To deny. Obsolete.

transitive. To deny the truth of (a statement). Also with clause as object. rare.

transitive. To refuse to admit or acknowledge as true or valid; to deny. Obsolete.

transitive. To deny the truth of (a fact, statement, etc.); to contradict; to negate. Cf. affirm, v. 2.

transitive. To affirm the contrary of; to declare untrue or erroneous; to deny categorically. a statement.

To impugn or mark as faulty.

transitive. To call false, contradict as a lie or a liar; to deny the truth or truthfulness of. Now rare.

To refute; to contradict, deny. Obsolete.

transitive. To accuse (a person) of lying.

transitive. To renounce or abjure (a tenet or belief); to deny, to reject; to negate. Also occasionally intransitive.

transitive. To render ineffective or invalid, to nullify, cancel out; to destroy. Also (esp. in early use): to deny the existence or truth of; to…

transitive. To deny. With unto.

transitive. To renounce completely, to repudiate.

transitive. To refuse or oppose (something or someone); to deny (something). Cf. yea-say, v. 2.

transitive. To deny, contradict, or countermand; to negate.

transitive. To assert to be untrue, contradict.