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negativingverbpresent participle of negative to reject by or as if by a votealthough the rebuttal was very eloquent, the jury negatived it in favor of the prosecution's argument we promptly negatived the idea of having pizza again for dinner, noting that we had already had it for three nights that week blackballing, downing, killing, nixing, shooting down, vetoing declining, disallowing, disapproving, dismissing, refusingblacklisting confirming, ratifying admitting, allowing, approving, assenting (to), passing, sanctioningelecting, supporting to declare not to be truethe governor's press secretary promptly negatived the rumor that he was not intending to run for reelection contradicting, denying, disaffirming, disallowing, disavowing, disclaiming, disconfirming, disowning, gainsaying, negating, refuting, rejecting, repudiating traversingchallenging, confuting, disproving, rebuttingdisagreeing (with), disputing acknowledging, admitting, allowing, avowing, conceding, confirming, owning accepting, adopting, embracing, espousingaffirming, announcing, asserting, averring, claiming, declaring, maintaining, professing, submittingauthenticating, corroborating, substantiating, validating, verifying to show unwillingness to accept, do, engage in, or agree toeven though I had originally negatived the invitation, Mom thought I should go anyway balking (at), declining, deselecting, disapproving, nixing, passing, passing up, refusing, rejecting, reprobating, repudiating, spurning, throwing out, throwing over, turning down blowing off, disdaining, rebuffing, scorning, scouting, shooting downoverruling, vetoingforbidding, prohibiting, proscribingdismissing, ignoringabstaining (from), forbearing, refraining (from)denying, disavowing, disclaiming, disputing, gainsayingstickingabjuring, forswearing(also foreswearing), recanting, renouncing, retracting, taking back, unsaying, withdrawingavoiding, bypassing, detouringcontradicting, denying, disowning, negatingcontroverting, disagreeing (with), disproving, disputing, rebutting, refutingbacking down, backing off, backtrackingdisallowing, recalling, reneging, revoking turning one's back on accepting, agreeing (to), approving condoning, countenancing, swallowing, toleratingadopting, embracing, receiving, taking, welcomingacceding, acquiescing, agreeing, assenting, consentingchoosing, handpicking, selectingespousing, supporting to balance with an equal force so as to make ineffectiveno amount of flattery is likely to negative that overheard insult annulling, canceling (out)(or cancelling (out)), compensating (for), correcting, counteracting, counterbalancing, counterpoising, making up (for), neutralizing, offsetting invalidating, negating, neutering, nullifyingatoning (for)outbalancing, outweighing, redeemingredressing, relieving, remedyingoverriding, overruling to be unwilling to grantultimately, we negatived the request for a personal loan declining, denying, disallowing, disapproving, nixing, refusing, rejecting, reprobating, withholding banning, enjoining, forbidding, prohibiting, proscribing, vetoingrebuffing, repelling, spurningchecking, constraining, curbing, holding, keeping, repressing, restraining, restrictingbalking (at), hindering, impeding, obstructing allowing, conceding, granting, letting, OK'ing(or okaying), permitting affording, furnishing, giving, providing, supplyingauthorizing, commissioning, licensing(also licencing)acceding (to), acquiescing, agreeing (to), assenting (to), consenting (to), warrantingaccording, sanctioning, vouchsafing |