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say it: di-NAHY
deny is a verb meaning "declare untrue; contradict". It is pronounced /dɪˈnaɪ/ — di-NAHY. It carries 7 recorded senses.
declare untrue; contradict
“He denied the allegations”
“She denied that she had taken money”
refuse to accept or believe
“He denied his fatal illness”
refuse to grant, as of a petition or request
“The dean denied the students' request for more physics courses”
“the prisoners were denied the right to exercise for more than 2 hours a day”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for deny come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.