Deny

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

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.