Accept
Accept verb - To agree to receive whether willingly or reluctantly.
Usage example: some merchants in town will accept Canadian coins
Deny is an antonym for accept in topics: take on, reject, put up with, consenting, believe the goodness.
Deny
Deny verb - To declare not to be true.
Usage example: the congressman denied all charges of wrongdoing
Common collocations
| love | accept love | deny love |
| help | accept help | deny help |
| power | accept power | deny power |
| life | accept life | deny life |
| Other words: responsibility, request, truth, relationship, death, possibility, fact, way, reality, existence, feelings. | ||
Both words in one sentence
- Regardless of whether you accept or deny the offer (all the buttons on the dialogue box do the exact same thing, even the close button in the corner), a pop-up window will appear, WinFixer being downloaded onto your computer.
Source: Nightmare Fuel / Other -
All for Nothing: Holland's attempt to make Eureka accept him as The Chosen One and deny her relationship with Renton eventually becomes this.
Source: Anime / Eureka Seven - The point is actually stated as being that you can accept some things even if you don't understand them, but Twilight wasn't even trying to understand anything for most of the time, just to deny it.
Source: Lost Aesop
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