(v. t.) To declare not to be true; to gainsay; to contradict; -- opposed to affirm, allow, or admit.
(v. t.) To refuse (to do something or to accept something); to reject; to decline; to renounce.
(v. t.) To refuse to grant; to withhold; to refuse to gratify or yield to; as, to deny a request.
(v. t.) To disclaim connection with, responsibility for, and the like; to refuse to acknowledge; to disown; to abjure; to disavow.
(v. i.) To answer in /// negative; to declare an assertion not to be true.
Example Sentences:
(1) He still denied it and said he was giving the girl a lift.
(2) The highest rate of discontinuation occurred when method choice was denied in the presence of husband-wife agreement on method choice, and the lowest rate occurred when method choice was granted in the presence of such concurrence.
(3) It was with unanimous consent.” He denied that Trump’s tweets had played a part, saying: “No, no, no.
(4) The White House denied there had been an agreement, but said it was open in principle to such negotations.
(5) Keep it in the ground campaign Though they draw on completely different archives, leaked documents, and interviews with ex-employees, they reach the same damning conclusion: Exxon knew all that there was to know about climate change decades ago, and instead of alerting the rest of us denied the science and obstructed the politics of global warming.
(6) Greek officials categorically denied the report with many describing it as a "joke".
(7) In practice they are so elastic that they have been used to deny pasta to besieged Gazans.
(8) It felt like my very existence was being denied,” said Hahn Chae-yoon, executive director of Beyond the Rainbow Foundation.
(9) The government has blamed a clumsily worded press release for the furore, denying there would be random checks of the public.
(10) Crushing their dream of denying healthcare to millions of people will put them on that road to despair.
(11) Both of these bills include restrictions on moving terrorists into our country.” The White House quickly confirmed the president would have to sign the legislation but denied this meant that its upcoming plan for closing Guantánamo was, in the words of one reporter, “dead on arrival”.
(12) However ITV deny that any approach or offer, formal or informal, has been made.
(13) To organise society as an individualistic war of one against another was barbaric, while the other models, slavishly following the rules of one religion or one supreme leader, denied freedom.
(14) He denied that the probation service budget, which has been protected so far from 23% cuts, would be a particular target, but said it was not yet making the same level of savings as was being required of the police.
(15) Nepalese workers building stadiums for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar have been denied leave to attend funerals or visit relatives following the earthquakes in the Himalayan country that have killed more than 8,000 people, its government has revealed.
(16) Authorities in most cities – from Chita in Siberia to Makhachkala in Dagestan – denied permission for the rallies.
(17) Planned Parenthood denies the accusations, saying it donates fetal tissue to medical research companies at no cost.
(18) However, a spokesperson for the Department for Communities and Local Government denied any reports of a rift with the Treasury.
(19) There were numerous reports of looting and tampering with evidence, although rebel authorities angrily denied them.
(20) It could bring down the prime minister, though he denies it.
Obstruct
Definition:
(v. t.) To block up; to stop up or close, as a way or passage; to place an obstacle in, or fill with obstacles or impediments that prevent or hinder passing; as, to obstruct a street; to obstruct the channels of the body.
(v. t.) To be, or come, in the way of; to hinder from passing; to stop; to impede; to retard; as, the bar in the harbor obstructs the passage of ships; clouds obstruct the light of the sun; unwise rules obstruct legislation.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have previously shown that intratracheally instilled silica (quartz) produces both morphologic evidence of emphysema and small-airway changes, and functional evidence of airflow obstruction.
(2) Evaluation revealed tricuspid insufficiency, a massively dilated right internal jugular vein, and obstruction of the left internal jugular vein.
(3) A segment of vas deferens was transplanted to the contralateral deferens with the intention of improving treatment for certain cases of infertility caused by obstruction.
(4) In the case presented, overdistension of a jejunostomy catheter balloon led to intestinal obstruction and pressure necrosis (of the small bowel), with subsequent abscess formation leading to death from septicemia.
(5) During the procedure, acute respiratory failure developed as a result of tracheal obstruction.
(6) Intranasal challenge of allergic subjects with the allergen to which they are sensitive rapidly produces sneezing, rhinorrhea, and airway obstruction.
(7) Delineation of the presence and anatomy of an obstructed, nonfunctioning upper-pole duplex system often requires multiple imaging techniques.
(8) Therefore, the measurement of the alpha-antitrypsin content plays the crucial part in differential diagnosis of primary (hereditary determined) and secondary (obstructive) emphysema.
(9) In 2 patients who had received cadaveric renal allograft, ureteral obstruction was detected six and one-half and five and one-half years after transplantation.
(10) Two cases are presented of bilateral ureteral obstruction and uremia due to pressure from nodes involved in disseminated lymphoma.
(11) The occurrence of episodes of desaturation during sleep in patients suffering from chronic airflow obstruction is well known.
(12) Keep it in the ground campaign Though they draw on completely different archives, leaked documents, and interviews with ex-employees, they reach the same damning conclusion: Exxon knew all that there was to know about climate change decades ago, and instead of alerting the rest of us denied the science and obstructed the politics of global warming.
(13) Tubal obstruction could be demonstrated in only one of these patients.
(14) Schistosomal obstructive uropathy was studied by clinical, laboratory epidemiologic and pathologic analysis in 155 Egyptian patients treated surgically.
(15) For obstruction of greater than or equal to 50% of the pulmonary vascular cross-sectional area and pulmonary hypertension thrombolytic therapy should be given and insertion of an inferior caval filter can be considered.
(16) Regression of the tumor occurred during an episode of mechanical small bowel obstruction.
(17) Comparison with 99Tc-pyrophosphate uptake in infarcted dog heart, induced by selective obstruction of a coronary artery, suggest that the 111In-labelled F(ab')2 localizes specifically in infarcted myocardium only.
(18) In case of biliary and pancreatic duct obstruction with pure pancreatic reflux, both oedema and inflammatory infiltrations were evident, whereas, in the presence of biliary reflux too, more serious histological features were detected.
(19) We recently treated a patient in whom HPVG was caused by intestinal pseudo-obstruction.
(20) In patients with acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, although either sympathomimetic or anticholinergic therapy provides bronchodilatation, no further benefit could be demonstrated from combination therapy.