Object

• rumor: Saints deny rumors of Fowler play Sun 13 Nov Saints have moved to deny rumors that Robbie Fowler could be joining Southampton on loan.

• existence: Similarly, you cannot discuss the purpose of life with a man who denies the existence of God.

• accusation: The group denies accusations that it is aiding terrorists in the south.

Modifying Another Word

• strenuously: The police strenuously deny that there is any evidence to support these claims.

• categorically: Yet in your letter of information you categorically deny what comrade N tells me.

• flatly: He flatly denies the fundamental truths of the Gospel.

• vigorously: Many archeologists vigorously deny that cannibalism has ever been normal practice in Britain or elsewhere, in prehistory or at any more recent period.

Used with why or when

• what: The guest can now only confirm or deny what has been said.

Present participle complement

• murder: George ( 41 ) denies murdering the TV presenter on 26 April 1999.

• steal: Man denies stealing rower's Olympic medal about the guy arrested for nicking Matthew Pinsent's latest bit of metalwork.

• know: Marcia goes missing and the plot thickens when her teachers / landlord etc deny ever knowing her.

Preposition: by

• keeper: Cole went close for Blues but was denied by keeper Smith, and Hucknall pushed forward with Mark Smith prominent.