refuse+to+admit

  • 71nullify — Synonyms and related words: abate, abjure, abolish, abrogate, absolve, annihilate, annul, assert the contrary, belie, bring to naught, bring to nothing, buffer, cancel, cancel out, come to nothing, compensate, confine, contest, contradict,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 72oppose — Synonyms and related words: abjure, agree to differ, agree to disagree, analogize, antagonize, array, arrest, assert the contrary, assimilate, attack, balance, ban, bar, be antipathetic, be at cross purposes, be at variance, be in dissent, be… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 73refute — Synonyms and related words: abjure, advocate, allege in support, answer, answer conclusively, argue down, argue for, assert, assert the contrary, belie, break, champion, confound, confute, contend for, contest, contradict, contravene, controvert …

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  • 74retract — Synonyms and related words: abandon, abjure, abolish, abrogate, annul, assert the contrary, back, back down, back out, backwater, belie, cancel, cede, climb down, contest, contradict, contravene, controvert, counter, countermand, counterorder,… …

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  • 75revoke — Synonyms and related words: abjure, abolish, abrogate, annihilate, annul, assert the contrary, back down, back out, backwater, belie, bring to naught, cancel, cite, climb down, contest, contradict, contravene, controvert, counter, countermand,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 76take back — Synonyms and related words: abjure, apologize, ask forgiveness, assert the contrary, back down, back out, backwater, beg indulgence, beg pardon, belie, bring back, climb down, contest, contradict, contravene, controvert, counter, crawfish out,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 77take issue with — Synonyms and related words: abjure, agree to differ, agree to disagree, assert the contrary, be at cross purposes, be at variance, be in dissent, beg to differ, belie, bicker over, contend about, contest, contradict, contravene, controvert,… …

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  • 78denial — de|ni|al [dıˈnaıəl] n 1.) [U and C] a statement saying that something is not true →↑deny denial of ▪ The government issued an official denial of the rumour. denial that ▪ denials that border security had not been strict enough 2.) [U] when… …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 79exclude — [eks klo͞od′, iksklo͞od′] vt. excluded, excluding [ME excluden < L excludere < ex , out + claudere, CLOSE3] 1. to refuse to admit, consider, include, etc.; shut out; keep from entering, happening, or being; reject; bar 2. to put out; force… …

    English World dictionary

  • 80veto — I. noun (plural vetoes) Etymology: Latin, I forbid, from vetare to forbid Date: 1629 1. an authoritative prohibition ; interdiction 2. a. a power of one department or branch of a government to forbid or prohibit finally or provisionally the… …

    New Collegiate Dictionary