Difference between Deny and Traverse

What is the difference between Deny and Traverse?

Deny as a verb is to not allow. while Traverse as a verb is to travel across, often under difficult conditions.

Deny

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To not allow. To assert that something is not true.

Example sentence: The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians who acknowledge Jesus with their lips and walk out the door and deny Him by their lifestyle. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable.

Traverse

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To travel across, often under difficult conditions.To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly; as, to traverse all nodes in a network.To rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target.To climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent.In fortification, a mass of earth or other material employed to protect troops against enfilade. It is constructed at right angles to the parapet.A series of points, with angles and distances measured between, traveled around a subject, usually for use as "control" i.e. angular reference system for later surveying work.

Example sentence: Any beings advanced enough to traverse interstellar distances are at least a thousand years beyond our technical level. Spending gobs of time examining our missiles is equivalent to sending the Air Force back to the Middle Ages and insisting they examine the chain mail factories.

We hope you now know whether to use Deny or Traverse in your sentence.

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