different between drawl vs deny

English

Etymology

From a modern frequentative form of draw, equivalent to draw +? -le. Compare draggle. Compare also Dutch dralen (“to drag out, delay, linger, tarry, dawdle”), Old Danish dravle (“to linger, loiter”), Icelandic dralla (“to loiter, linger”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d???l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /d??l/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /d??l/
• (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this pronunciation?) (US, paragon) IPA^(key): /d????w/

Rhymes: -??l

Verb

drawl (third-person singular simple present drawls, present participle drawling, simple past and past participle drawled)

1. (transitive) To drag on slowly and heavily; to while or dawdle away time indolently.
2. (transitive) To utter or pronounce in a dull, spiritless tone, as if by dragging out the utterance.
3. (intransitive) To move slowly and heavily; move in a dull, slow, lazy manner.
4. (intransitive) To speak with a slow, spiritless utterance, from affectation, laziness, or lack of interest.
   • Template:Landor IC

     talk sometimes a pestilence , and sometimes a hero , mostly in a drawling and dreaming way about it

Translations

Noun

drawl (plural drawls)

1. A way of speaking slowly while lengthening vowel sounds and running words together. Characteristic of some southern US accents, as well as Scots.

Translations

See also

• brogue
• lilt
• lisp
• twang

English

Etymology

From Middle English denyen, from Old French denoier (“to deny, to repudiate”) (French dénier), from Latin denegare (“to deny, to refuse”), from de- (“away”) and negare (“to refuse”), the latter ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ne (“no, not”). Doublet of denegate.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d??na?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /d??na?/, /d?-/
• Rhymes: -a?
• Hyphenation: de?ny

Verb

deny (third-person singular simple present denies, present participle denying, simple past and past participle denied)

1. (transitive) To disallow or reject.
2. (transitive) To assert that something is not true.
3. (ditransitive) To refuse to give or grant something to someone.
   • 1754, Jonathan Edwards, An Inquiry into the Modern Prevailing Notions Respecting that Freedom of the Will which is supposed to be Essential to Moral Agency

     To some men, it is more agreeable to deny a vicious inclination, than to gratify it.
4. To take something away from someone; to deprive of.
5. (sports, transitive) To prevent from scoring.
6. To disclaim connection with, responsibility for, etc.; to refuse to acknowledge; to disown; to abjure; to disavow.
   • 1834-1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent.

     the falsehood of denying his opinion

   • 1827, John Keble, The Christian Year

     thou thrice denied, yet thrice beloved

7. (obsolete) To refuse (to do or accept something).

Usage notes

• This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing). See Appendix:English catenative verbs.
• Deny can have a connotation that the denial is false; he denied knowing the accused has a more suspicious tone than he said he did not know the accused. However, in some formal usages, e.g. medical records, it can have a more neutral sense (patient denies chest pain).
• See refute.

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (assert something is not true): gainsay, contradict, withsay, refute, disclaim

Antonyms

• (disallow): allow
• (assert something is true): confirm, affirm

Derived terms

• deniability
• denier
• justice delayed is justice denied

Related terms

• denial

Translations

Anagrams

• E.D.N.Y., Ynde, dyne