Confirm vs. Deny — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Confirm and Deny
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Confirm
To support or establish the certainty or validity of; verify
Confirm a rumor.
Deny
To declare untrue; assert to be false
"A senior officer denied that any sensitive documents had been stored there" (Scott Ritter).
Confirm
To reaffirm the establishment of (a reservation or advance arrangement).
Deny
To refuse to believe; reject
Deny the existence of evil spirits.
Confirm
To make firmer; strengthen
Working on the campaign confirmed her intention to go into politics.
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Deny
To refuse to recognize or acknowledge; disavow
The official denied any wrongdoing.
Confirm
To make valid or binding by a formal or legal act; ratify.
Deny
To decline to grant or allow; refuse
Deny the student's request.
Denied the prisoner food or water.
Confirm
To administer the religious rite of confirmation to.
Deny
To give a refusal to; turn down or away
The protesters were determined not to be denied.
Confirm
To strengthen; to make firm or resolute.
Deny
To restrain (oneself) especially from indulgence in pleasures.
Confirm
To administer the sacrament of confirmation on (someone).
Deny
(transitive) To disallow or reject.
I wanted to go to the party, but I was denied.
Confirm
To assure the accuracy of previous statements.
Deny
(transitive) To assert that something is not true.
I deny that I was at the party.
Everyone knows he committed the crime, but he still denies it.
Confirm
To make firm or firmer; to add strength to; to establish; as, health is confirmed by exercise.
Confirm the crown to me and to mine heirs.
And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law.
Deny
(ditransitive) To refuse to give or grant something to someone.
My father denied me a good education.
Confirm
To strengthen in judgment or purpose.
Confirmed, then, I resolveAdam shall share with me in bliss or woe.
Deny
To take something away from someone; to deprive of.
Confirm
To give new assurance of the truth of; to render certain; to verify; to corroborate; as, to confirm a rumor.
Your eyes shall witness and confirm my tale.
These likelihoods confirm her flight.
Deny
To prevent from scoring.
Confirm
To render valid by formal assent; to complete by a necessary sanction; to ratify; as, to confirm the appoinment of an official; the Senate confirms a treaty.
That treaty so prejudicial ought to have been remitted rather than confimed.
Deny
To disclaim connection with, responsibility for, etc.; to refuse to acknowledge; to disown; to abjure; to disavow.
Confirm
To administer the rite of confirmation to. See Confirmation, 3.
Those which are thus confirmed are thereby supposed to be fit for admission to the sacrament.
Deny
(obsolete) To refuse (to do or accept something).
Confirm
Establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts;
His story confirmed my doubts
The evidence supports the defendant
Deny
To declare not to be true; to gainsay; to contradict; - opposed to affirm, allow, or admit.
Confirm
Strengthen or make more firm;
The witnesses confirmed the victim's account
Deny
To refuse (to do something or to accept something); to reject; to decline; to renounce.
Confirm
Make more firm;
Confirm thy soul in self-control!
Deny
To refuse to grant; to withhold; to refuse to gratify or yield to; as, to deny a request.
Who finds not Providence all good and wise,Alike in what it gives, and what denies?
To some men, it is more agreeable to deny a vicious inclination, than to gratify it.
Confirm
As of a person to a position;
The Senate confirmed the President's candidate for Secretary of Defense
Deny
To disclaim connection with, responsibility for, and the like; to refuse to acknowledge; to disown; to abjure; to disavow.
The falsehood of denying his opinion.
Thou thrice denied, yet thrice beloved.
Let him deny himself, and take up his cross.
Confirm
Administer the rite of confirmation to;
The children were confirmed in their mother's faith
Deny
To answer in negative; to declare an assertion not to be true.
Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid.
Deny
Declare untrue; contradict;
He denied the allegations
She denied that she had taken money
Deny
Refuse to accept or believe;
He denied his fatal illness
Deny
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
Deny
Refuse to let have;
She denies me every pleasure
He denies her her weekly allowance
Deny
Deny oneself (something); restrain, especially from indulging in some pleasure;
She denied herself wine and spirits
Deny
Deny formally (an allegation of fact by the opposing party) in a legal suit
Deny
Refuse to recognize or acknowledge;
Peter denied Jesus
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