This will ensure that it can hold up against the elements and protect your fuel source, especially if youâre incorporating a gas-fueled hearth. Size it appropriately. Standard fireplace widths are 36, 42 or 48 inches. The best size for you will depend on how close you will be to the fireplace and whatâs overhead.
verb (used with object), denied, denying. 1. to state that (something declared or believed to be true) is not true: to deny an accusation. 2. to refuse to agree or accede to: to deny a petition.
denial. in psychiatry, a defense mechanism in which the existence of unpleasant internal or external realities is denied and kept out of conscious awareness. By keeping the stressors out of consciousness, they are prevented from causing anxiety.sychiatry A primitiveâego defenseâmechanism by which a person unconsciously negates the existence of a disease or other stress-producing reality in his environment, by disavowing thoughts, feelings, wishes, needs, or external reality factors that are consciously intolerable.