Synonyms of the word

deny

• v. (transitive) To not allow.
• v. (transitive) To assert that something is not true.
• v. (transitive) To disallow.
• v. (transitive) to refuse to give or grant something to someone.
• v. (sports, transitive) To prevent from scoring.
• v. To disclaim connection with, responsibility for, etc.; to refuse to acknowledge; to disown; to abjure;…
• v. (obsolete) To refuse (to do or accept something).

abnegate

• v. (transitive) To deny (oneself something); to renounce or give up (a right, a power, a claim, a privilege,…
• v. (transitive) To relinquish; to surrender; to abjure.

check

• n. (chess) A situation in which the king is directly threatened by an opposing piece.
• n. An inspection or examination.
• n. A control; a limit or stop.
• n. (US) A mark (especially a checkmark: ✓) used as an indicator, equivalent to a tick (UK).
• n. (US) An order to a bank to pay money to a named person or entity; a cheque (UK, Canada).
• n. (US) A bill, particularly in a restaurant.
• n. (contact sports) A maneuver performed by a player to take another player out of the play.
• n. A token used instead of cash in gaming machines.
• n. A lengthwise separation through the growth rings in wood.
• n. A mark, certificate, or token, by which, errors may be prevented, or a thing or person may be identified.
• n. (falconry) The forsaking by a hawk of its proper game to follow other birds.
• n. A small chink or crack.
• v. To inspect; to examine.
• v. To verify the accuracy of a text or translation, usually making some corrections (proofread) or many (copyedit).
• v. (US, often used with "off") To mark items on a list (with a checkmark or by crossing them out) that have…
• v. To control, limit, or halt.
• v. To verify or compare with a source of information.
• v. To leave in safekeeping.
• v. To leave with a shipping agent for shipping.
• v. (street basketball) To pass or bounce the ball to an opponent from behind the three-point line and have…
• v. (contact sports) To hit another player with one's body.
• v. (poker) To remain in a hand without betting. Only legal if no one has yet bet.
• v. (chess) To make a move which puts an adversary's piece, especially the king, in check; to put in check.
• v. To chide, rebuke, or reprove.
• v. (nautical) To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly extended.
• v. To crack or gape open, as wood in drying; or to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint, etc.
• v. To make checks or chinks in; to cause to crack.
• v. To make a stop; to pause; with at.
• v. (obsolete) To clash or interfere.
• v. To act as a curb or restraint.
• v. (falconry) To turn, when in pursuit of proper game, and fly after other birds.
• n. (textiles, usually pluralized) A pattern made up of a grid of squares of alternating colors; a checkered…

contain

• v. (transitive) To hold inside.
• v. (transitive) To include as a part.
• v. (transitive) To put constraint upon; to restrain; to confine; to keep within bounds.
• v. (mathematics, of a set etc., transitive) To have as an element or subset.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To restrain desire; to live in continence or chastity.

contradict

• v. (obsolete) To speak against; to forbid.
• v. To deny the truth of (a statement or statements).
• v. To make a statement denying the truth of the statement(s) made by (a person).
• v. To be contrary to; to oppose; to resist.

contravene

• v. (transitive) To act contrary to an order, or fail to conform to a regulation.
• v. (transitive) To deny the truth of something.

control

• v. (transitive) To exercise influence over; to suggest or dictate the behavior of.
• v. (transitive, statistics) (construed with for) To design (an experiment) so that the effects of one or…
• n. (countable, uncountable) Influence or authority over something.
• n. A separate group or subject in an experiment against which the results are compared where the primary…
• n. The method and means of governing the performance of any apparatus, machine or system, such as a lever,…
• n. Restraint or ability to contain one's movements or emotions, or self-control.
• n. A security mechanism, policy, or procedure that can counter system attack, reduce risks, and resolve vulnerabilities;…
• n. (project management) A means of monitoring for, and triggering intervention in, activities that are not…
• n. A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register.
• n. (graphical user interface) An interface element that a computer user interacts with, such as a window…
• n. (climatology) Any of the physical factors determining the climate of a place, such as latitude, distribution…
• n. (linguistics) A construction in which the understood subject of a given predicate is determined by an…

curb

• n. (Canada, US) A concrete margin along the edge of a road; a kerb (UK).
• n. A raised margin along the edge of something, such as a well or the eye of a dome, as a strengthening.
• n. Something that checks or restrains; a restraint.
• n. A riding or driving bit for a horse that has rein action which amplifies the pressure in the mouth by…
• n. (Canada, US) A sidewalk, covered or partially enclosed, bordering the airport terminal road system with…
• n. A swelling on the back part of the hind leg of a horse, just behind the lowest part of the hock joint,…
• v. (transitive) To check, restrain or control.
• v. (transitive) To rein in.
• v. (transitive) To furnish with a curb, as a well; to restrain by a curb, as a bank of earth.
• v. (transitive) To force to "bite the curb" (hit the pavement curb); see curb stomp.
• v. (transitive) To damage vehicle wheels or tires by running into or over a pavement curb.
• v. (transitive) To bend or curve.
• v. (intransitive) To crouch; to cringe.

disavow

• v. (transitive) To strongly and solemnly refuse to own or acknowledge; to deny responsibility for, approbation…
• v. (transitive) To deny; to show the contrary of; to disprove; to deny legitimacy or achievement of any kind.

hold

• adj. (obsolete) Gracious; friendly; faithful; true.
• v. (transitive) To grasp or grip.
• v. (transitive) To contain or store.
• v. (heading) To maintain or keep to a position or state.
• v. (heading) To maintain or keep to particular opinions, promises, actions.
• v. (tennis, transitive, intransitive) To win one's own service game.
• v. To take place, to occur.
• v. To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).
• v. (archaic) To derive right or title.
• n. A grasp or grip.
• n. A place where animals are held for safety.
• n. An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with.
• n. Something reserved or kept.
• n. Power over someone or something.
• n. The ability to persist.
• n. The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.
• n. (wrestling) A position or grip used to control the opponent.
• n. (exercise (sport)) An exercise involving holding a position for a set time.
• n. (gambling) The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold.
• n. (gambling) The wager amount, the total hold.
• n. (tennis) An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken.
• n. The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet.
• n. A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin.
• n. (video games, dated) A pause facility.
• n. The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when…
• n. (nautical, aviation) The cargo area of a ship or aircraft, (often cargo hold).

keep

• v. To continue in (a course or mode of action); not to intermit or fall from; to uphold or maintain.
• v. (heading, transitive) To hold the status of something.
• v. (heading, intransitive) To hold or be held in a state.
• v. (obsolete) To wait for, keep watch for.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To act as wicket-keeper.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To take care; to be solicitous; to watch.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To be in session; to take place.
• v. (transitive) To observe; to adhere to; to fulfill; not to swerve from or violate.
• v. (transitive, dated) To confine oneself to; not to quit; to remain in.
• v. (transitive, dated, by extension) To visit (a place) often; to frequent.
• n. (obsolete) Care, notice.
• n. (historical) The main tower of a castle or fortress, located within the castle walls. (According to, the…
• n. The food or money required to keep someone alive and healthy; one's support, maintenance.
• n. The act or office of keeping; custody; guard; care; heed; charge.
• n. The state of being kept; hence, the resulting condition; case.
• n. (obsolete) That which is kept in charge; a charge.
• n. (engineering) A cap for holding something, such as a journal box, in place.

moderate

• adj. Not excessive; acting in moderation.
• adj. Mediocre.
• adj. Average priced; standard-deal.
• adj. Not violent or rigorous; temperate; mild; gentle.
• adj. (US, politics) Having an intermediate position between liberal and conservative.
• n. One who holds an intermediate position between extremes, as in politics.
• v. (transitive) To reduce the excessiveness of (something).
• v. (intransitive) To become less excessive.
• v. (transitive) To preside over (something) as a moderator.
• v. (intransitive) To act as a moderator; to assist in bringing to compromise.

negate

• v. To deny the existence, evidence, or truth of; to contradict.
• v. To nullify or cause to be ineffective.
• v. To be negative; bring or cause negative results.
• v. (computing) To perform the NOT operation on.

refuse

• adj. Discarded, rejected.
• n. (Britain) Collectively, items or material that have been discarded; rubbish, garbage.
• v. (transitive) To decline (a request or demand).
• v. (intransitive) To decline a request or demand, forbear; to withhold permission.
• v. (military) To throw back, or cause to keep back (as the centre, a wing, or a flank), out of the regular…
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To disown.
• n. (obsolete) refusal.

renounce

• n. (card games) An act of renouncing.
• v. (transitive) To give up, resign, surrender, atsake.
• v. (transitive) To cast off, repudiate.
• v. (transitive) To decline further association with someone or something, disown.
• v. (transitive) To abandon, forsake, discontinue (an action, habit, intention, etc), sometimes by open declaration.
• v. (intransitive) To make a renunciation of something.
• v. (intransitive) To surrender formally some right or trust.
• v. (intransitive, card games) To fail to follow suit; playing a card of a different suit when having no card…

repudiate

• v. To reject the truth or validity of something; to deny.
• v. To refuse to have anything to do with; to disown.
• v. To refuse to pay or honor (a debt).
• v. (intransitive) To be repudiated.

traverse

• n. (climbing) A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by…
• n. (surveying) A series of points, with angles and distances measured between, traveled around a subject,…
• n. (obsolete) A screen or partition.
• n. Something that thwarts or obstructs.
• n. (architecture) A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
• n. (law) A formal denial of some matter of fact alleged by the opposite party in any stage of the pleadings…
• n. (nautical) The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound…
• n. (geometry) A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
• n. (military) In trench warfare, a defensive trench built to prevent enfilade.
• v. (transitive) To travel across, often under difficult conditions.
• v. (transitive, computing) To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly.
• v. To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
• v. (artillery) To rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target.
• v. (climbing), To climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle (relative to the slope).
• v. (engineering), (skiing) To (make a cutting, an incline) across the gradients of a sloped face at safe…
• v. To cross by way of opposition; to thwart with obstacles; to obstruct.
• v. To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
• v. (carpentry) To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood.
• v. (law) To deny formally.
• adv. athwart; across; crosswise.
• adj. Lying across; being in a direction across something else.

withhold

• v. (transitive) To keep (a physical object that one has obtained) to oneself rather than giving it back to…
• v. (transitive) To keep (information, assent etc) to oneself rather than revealing it.