(a) To deny (something to someone); (b) to bar (a place to someone), to forbid (someone's entrance or passage);--often with gen. …

(a) To be stinting (b) to deny a request to (sb.); (c) to refuse to give or share (sth.); refuse (sth. to sb., sb. sth.);—occas. with obj. in gen. or of phrase; also, refuse (sb. a request); (d) to……