To support, countenance, maintain, uphold, or aid (any good cause, opinion, or action); to maintain.
To incite; to assist or encourage by aid or countenance in crime.
To disclaim connection with, responsibility for, etc.; to refuse to acknowledge; to disown; to abjure; to disavow.
To assert that something is not true.
To refuse to give or grant something to someone.
To disallow or reject.
To take something away from someone; to deprive of.
To prevent from scoring.