desmentir

v.

1 to deny.

desmintió la noticia he denied the report

2 to belie.

3 to disprove, to give the lie to, to disavow, to belie.

* * *

desmentir

Conjugation model [HERVIR], like {{link=hervir}}hervir

► verbo transitivo

1 (negar) to deny

2 (contradecir) to contradict, belie

3 (desmerecer) not to live up to

* * *

verb

to deny

* * *

1. VT

1) (=negar) [+ acusación] to deny, refute; [+ rumor] to scotch, squelch (EEUU); [+ teoría] to refute; [+ carácter, orígenes] to belie

desmentir rotundamente una acusación — to deny a charge flatly

2) (=llevar la contraria) [+ persona] to contradict

2.

VI to be out of line

desmentir de algo — to belie sth

3.

See:

desmentirse

* * *

verbo transitivo <noticia/rumor> to deny; <acusación> to deny, refute

* * *

= deny, refute, disprove.

Ex. Borrower records may be marked so that charge-out privileges will be denied except when special permission from the librarian is given.

Ex. The title, 'The Catalog in the World Around It,' suggests that the catalog is an abstract; I would like to refute that suggestion in the beginning.

Ex. It is the ideology which was urged against Panizzi and was cogently disproved by him before the Royal Commission but whose seductive simplicity has always found friends to keep it alive.

----

* desmentir un rumor = scoff at + the idea, dismiss + speculation.

* * *

verbo transitivo <noticia/rumor> to deny; <acusación> to deny, refute

* * *

= deny, refute, disprove.

Ex: Borrower records may be marked so that charge-out privileges will be denied except when special permission from the librarian is given.

Ex: The title, 'The Catalog in the World Around It,' suggests that the catalog is an abstract; I would like to refute that suggestion in the beginning.

Ex: It is the ideology which was urged against Panizzi and was cogently disproved by him before the Royal Commission but whose seductive simplicity has always found friends to keep it alive.

* desmentir un rumor = scoff at + the idea, dismiss + speculation.

* * *

desmentir [I11 ]

vt

1 ‹noticia/rumor› to deny; ‹acusación› to deny, refute

2 ‹persona› to contradict

* * *

desmentir (conjugate desmentir) verbo transitivo ‹noticia/rumor› to deny;
‹acusación› to deny, refute
desmentir verbo transitivo to deny
'desmentir' also found in these entries:
English:
deny
- disprove
- denial

* * *

desmentir vt

1. [negar] to deny;

desmintió la noticia he denied the report;

el primer ministro desmintió a su portavoz the prime minister contradicted his spokesperson

2. [desmerecer] to be unworthy of

* * *

desmentir

v/t

1 acusación deny

2 a alguien contradict

* * *

desmentir {76} vt

1) negar: to deny, to refute

2) contradecir: to contradict

* * *

desmentir vb (negar) to deny [pt. & pp. denied]