| 单词 | deny |
| 释义 | de·ny 1. a. < the suspect denied the charge > < denying that the explanation was true > b. logic 2. < an apostate denying his faith > 3. a. < hard to deny an eager child > < denying the petitioners > b. < the king denied his vassal's plea > < the leave was denied to him > < denied the child the candy > c. < denying herself any fun in life > 4. archaic a. b. 5. a. obsolete b. obsolete c. < the doctor did not wish to see the woman and told the nurse to deny him > 6. < denying the appearances of gods > < denying witchcraft as an effective force > 7. < denying his partner's spades > Synonyms: < deny an accusation > < deny the possibility of peaceful coexistence > < history cannot be denied — James King > gainsay, not now common in speech, implies opposition by a disputing of what someone else has said < it cannot be gainsaid that cormorants are fish-eaters — C.L.Barrett > < no one would gainsay the right of anyone, the royal American right, to protest — W.A.White > contradict, implying a flatter denial of the truth of an assertion, or a fact that lends itself to assertion, than does gainsay, commonly suggests that the contrary of an assertion is true or that the assertion is totally untrue < nobody would have contradicted an assertion that it really was so — Thomas Hardy > < sales of that sort contradicted the spirit of the Homestead Act — R.A.Billington > negative is variable in its force but is often a mild term implying a refusal to assent < it was not due to the banks that their request for loans was negatived — L.W.Mints > < he emphatically negatived the movement to nominate him as vice-president — Jonas Viles > traverse, chiefly a legal term in this sense, implies a formal denial, as of the truth of an allegation or the justice of an indictment < to traverse the decision of the House in rejecting a reasoned amendment on the second reading of the bill — T.E.May > < it traverses the theory of the Court in the Belmont and Pink cases — E.S.Corwin > impugn implies very strongly a direct, commonly insulting, disputing, questioning, or contradicting < did not hesitate to challenge when he considered his honor impugned — J.A.Robertson > < his accuracy had often been impugned, his authority challenged — Osbert Sitwell > < to impugn the reality of the world as known to science — W.R.Inge > contravene implies strongly a coming into conflict but implies less strongly than the other terms an intentional opposition, suggesting rather some inherent incompatibility < he could not strike out in any direction without wounding his wife or his friends, without contravening some loyalty that had become sacred to him — Van Wyck Brooks > < the power to abrogate actions of the constituent republics which contravene laws or decrees of the central government — F.A.Ogg & Harold Zink > |
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