Deter

Definition: Deter

Deter

Verb

1. Try to prevent; show opposition to: "We should discourage this practice among our youth".

2. Turn away from by persuasion; "Negative campaigning will only dissuade people".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "deter" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Note: Deter \De*ter"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Deterred; present participle verb or noun Deterring.]. (references)

DETER

Synonyms: Deter

Dissuasion

Disincline, indispose, shake, stagger; dispirit; discourage, dishearten; deter; repress, hold back, keep back; (restrain); render averse; repel; turn aside; (deviation); wean from; act as a drag; (hinder); throw cold water on, damp, cool, chill, blunt, calm, quiet, quench; deprecate.

Fear

Put in fear, put in bodily fear; terrorize, intimidate, cow, daunt, overawe, abash, deter, discourage; browbeat, bully; threaten.

Crosswords: Deter

Portuguese (abstract, arrest, buttonhole, dam up, detain, deter, hold back, intercept, refrain, resist, restrain, retain, stop, suspend).

Never again will I allow our political self-interest to deter us from doing what we know to be morally right (Air Force One; writing credit: Andrew W. Marlowe)

Books

• Clay Mineralogy: Physica Deter Methods (reference)

• Does Capital Punishment Deter Crime (At Issue) (reference)

• Does the Death Penalty Deter Murder? (reference)

• Effective Immigration Controls to Deter Terrorism: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Immigration of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Sen (reference)

  (more book examples)

Which being a trespass against the whole species, and the peace and safety of it, provided for by the law of nature, every man upon this score, by the right he hath to preserve mankind in general, may restrain, or where it is necessary, destroy things noxious to them, and so may bring such evil on any one, who hath transgressed that law, as may make him repent the doing of it, and thereby deter him, and by his example others, from doing the like mischief. (Second Treatise of Government)

Health

A parent may not want to worry children, scare them, or deter them from marrying. (references)

Business

The cost of shipping goods across the Atlantic should not deter exporters. (references)

Both bid through licensed brokers, of which there were 158 at the beginning of 2000. Although individual investors were the dominant players when stock market operations began in 1996, this changed rapidly as a result of takeovers by large-scale institutions and moves by the GOE to deter individuals from speculating (market volatility considered something to be ardently avoided). (references)

Civil Liberties

Macedonia

The NLA used religious sites--both Orthodox and Muslim--as military bases and firing positions, in an attempt to deter security forces from attacking. (references)

Kenya

This heightened scrutiny appears to be due to an attempt to deter illegal immigration, rather than due to the religious affiliation of ethnic Somalis. (references)

Fiji

Academic freedom generally is respected; however, government work permit stipulations and University of the South Pacific contract regulations effectively deter university employees from participating in domestic politics. (references)

Economic History

Singapore

The aim is to deter use of borrowed SGD to speculate against the exchange rate. (references)

Burma

Highly negative real interest rates and an undeveloped banking system deter business activity. (references)

Chad

Chad has no limits on foreign ownership and no discriminatory rules to deter foreign investors. (references)

Human Rights

Indonesia

The Government has not taken any significant action deter forces that abduct persons. (references)

Cameroon

The Police Commissioner claimed the sweep was undertaken to deter bandits from operating in the area. (references)

Tunisia

They also claim that erratic court schedules and procedures are designed to deter and discourage observers of political trials. (references)

Political Economy

SAUDI ARABIA

The current level of enforcement has been insufficient to deter piracy. (references)

Australia

During the year, the country tightened its immigration laws to deter illegal migrants. (references)

TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO

Only a few reporting requirements have been retained to deter money laundering and tax evasion. (references)

Trade

Uzbekistan

First, lack of transparency within both the government and the banking system will deter potential investors. (references)

Women

United Arab Emirates

Cultural attitudes also deter ownership by women. (references)

Philippines

The penalties for exploiting women for prostitution are not considered sufficient to deter those who engage in such activities. (references)

Worker Rights

Colombia

Guerrillas sometimes deter labor inspectors from performing their duties by declaring them military targets. (references)

Syria

The law does not prohibit strikes, except in the agricultural sector; however, previous government crackdowns on strikers deter workers from striking. (references)

Dominican Republic

The law forbidding companies to fire union organizers or members is enforced selectively, and penalties are insufficient to deter employers from violating worker rights. (references)

Expressions using "deter": deter from ♦ nothing will deter him. Additional references.

Beginning with "deter": deter-mined.

Afrikaans

afskrik (horror, scare). (various references)

Albanian

përmbaj (carry, check, choke, comprise, constrain, contain, control, Cork, detain, embrace, feature, gulp, hold, hold back, hold in, include, incorporate, pocket, repress, restock, restrain, stay), frenoj (brake). (various references)

Arabic 

‏منع (averting, ban, banning, bar, barring, block, debar, deny, deprive, estop, exclude, forbade, forbid, forbiddance, forbidding, foreclose, hinder, hindering, hold back, immunize, inhibit, interdict, interdiction, keep from, obstruct, obstruction, obviation, preclude, prevent, preventing, prevention, prohibit, prohibition, proscription, restrain from, stop, taboo, veto, ward off, withhold), ‏حول (ability, about, alien, around, be cross eyed, bleach, capricious, commit, concerning, deed, deliver, divert, encode, hand down, hand over, make, metamorphose, power, process, redress, refer, relocate, round, stop, switch, transfer, transmute, transpose, turn, whimsical, withdraw, work, year), ‏عاق (baffle, balk, block, cramp, delay, derange, detain, dirty, discourage, disloyal, disturb, embarrass, encumber, estop, handicap, hinder, hobble, hurt, impede, impious, interrupt, penalize, preclude, prevent, retard, set back, shackle, stifle, thankless, thwart, tie up, trammel, trap, undutiful, ungrateful, unthankful), ‏ثنى (bend, dissuade, drape, flex, fold, folding, goffer, hire, inflect, lap, pat, pleat, pliable, praise, pucker, replicate, tribute, tuck), ‏ردع (deterrence). (various references)

Bulgarian 

разубеждавам (discourage, dissuade, indispose, put off, reason out of), възпирам (control, debar, enchain, interdict, prohibit, repress, restrain, retain, stay, swaddle), задържам (apprehend, arrest, can, contain, detain, entrap, hold, hold back, hold off, hold over, hold up, immobilize, inhibit, keep, keep away, keep back, keep down, occlude, press back, reserve, restrain, retain, trig), попречвам (forestall, hinder, intervene, preclude, prevent, prohibit, put off, restrain, stop). (various references)

Chinese 

阻止 (Damped, Damping, Debar, Debarred, Debarring, Deterred, Deterring, forestall, Forestalled, forestalling, Preclude, Precluded, Precluding). (various references)

Czech

odstrašit. (various references)

Dutch

verjagen (discourage, expel, scare), afschrikken (discourage, scare). (various references)

Esperanto

fortimigi (discourage, scare). (various references)

Farsi 

تحذیرکردن , ترساندن (Abhor, Affray, Appall, Awe, Bash, Buffalo, Cow, Daunt, Feeze, Fray, Fright, Horrify, Huff, Intimidate, Scare, Shore, Spook, Threat, Tremble), بازداشتن (Arrest, Bar, Bloc, Block, Contain, Debar, Detain, Encumber, Impede, Interdict, Prevent, Stay, Stow). (various references)

Finnish

pelottaa (fill with awe, frighten, inspire with fear, intimidate, scare, startle, terrify). (various references)

French

dissuader, détourner (deflect), entraver (delay, detain), empêcher. (various references)

Frisian

ôfskrikke (discourage, scare). (various references)

German

abschrecken (alarm, discourage, frighten, frighten away, frighten off, put off, quench, rinse with cold water, scare off, to deter, to discourage). (various references)

Greek 

εμποδίζω (obstruct, prevent, thwart), αποτρέπω (avert, dissuade). (various references)

Hebrew 

להרתיע (discourage, startle). (various references)

Hungarian

elriaszt (to deter, to warn off), elrettent (to deter). (various references)

Indonesian

menghalangi (block, counteract, obstruct, thwart). (various references)

Italian

distogliere (alight, argue, avert, dissuade, distract, divert), dissuadere (dissuade), trattenere (keep), spaventare (scare, discourage), scoraggiare (demoralize, discourage, dishearten, dispirit), rimuovere (clear away, discharge, dislodge, dismiss, dissuade, evacuate, obliterate, remove, shift), impaurire (scare, discourage). (various references)

Korean 

제지하십시요 (restrain). (various references)

Manx

cur jeh (abort, disrobe, postpone, postponement, shake off, undressing, waive, work off), cumrail (delay, detain, encumber, encumbrance, hindrance, lag, loiter, obstruction, prevent). (various references)

Pig Latin

eterday.(various references)

Portuguese

dissuadir (deterge, discourage, dissuade, put off), deter (detain, restrain), desencorajar (daunt, depress, discourage, dishearten, dispirit, unman, unnerve), intimidar (appal, appall, awe, browbeat, concuss, cow, daunt, frighten, funk, hector, intimidate, menace, overawe, threaten, wither), fazer hesitar. (various references)

Romanian

descuraja (discourage), speria (alarm, frighten, scare), înfricoşa (scare), împiedica (arrest, back, balk, baulk, block, brake, check, circumvent, clog, delay, detain, embarrass, encumber, forbid, foreclose, hamper, help, hinder, hitch, hobble, hold, hopple, impede, inhibit, intercept, lock, obstruct, prevent, put on the brakes, restrain, shackle, shut out, snag, stay, stop, trammel, withhold). (various references)

Russian 

удерживать (restrain, withhold). (various references)

Spanish

disuadir (dissuade), desalentar (damp, dampen, daunt, depress, discourage, dishearten, dismay, dispirit), refrenarse (hold back), parar (come to a halt, halt, stop, cease, shut off, switch off, turn away, turn off), impedir a (gag, hamper, thwart), espantar (frighten, scare, appal, discourage, dismay). (various references)

Swedish

avskräcka (discourage, frighten). (various references)

Thai

ขัดขวาง (balk, bar, forbid, hinder, rule out, stymie, stymy, suffocate, thwart). (various references)

Turkish

yıldırmak (appall, be a disincentive to, browbeat, cow, daunt, discourage, frustrate, mau-mau), gözünü korkutup vazgeçirmek, caydırmak (argue smb. out of smth., dissuade, sidetrack, talk smb. out of smth., wean away from). (various references)

Ukrainian

стримувати (abate, bound, bridle, chasten, check, coerce, constrain, contain, control, curb, dominate, hold in, inhibit, moderate, pocket, rein, restrain, stay, stop, suppress, swaddle, swallow, temper), утримувати (aliment, cater, deduct, detain, hold, interdict, keep, maintain, retain, subsist), зупиняти (arrest, bar, cease, check, damp, halt, hold, hold up, nip, pull up, stanch, staunch, stop, withhold). (various references)

deterreat, deterrebit, deterrere, terreamini, terreat, terrebant, terreberis, terrebis, terrebit, terrebunt, terreo, terrere, terrerent, terreret, terribiliter, territi, territus, terruerunt, terruit. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "deter": deterge, deterged, detergencies, detergency, detergent, detergents, deterger, detergers, deterges, deterging, deteriorate, deteriorated, deteriorates, deteriorating, deterioration, deteriorations, deteriorative, determent, determents, determinable, determinableness, determinablenesses, determinably, determinacies, determinacy, determinant, determinantal, determinants, determinate, determinately, determinateness, determinatenesses, determination, determinations, determinative, determinatives, determinator, determinators, determine, determined, determinedly, determinedness, determinednesses, determiner, determiners, determines, determining, determinism, determinisms, determinist, deterministic. (additional references)

Words containing "deter": biodeterioration, biodeteriorations, codetermination, codeterminations, indeterminable, indeterminably, indeterminacies, indeterminacy, indeterminate, indeterminately, indeterminateness, indeterminatenesses, indetermination, indeterminations, indeterminism, indeterminisms, indeterminist, indeterministic, indeterminists, nondeterministic, overdetermined, predetermination, predeterminations, predetermine, predetermined, predeterminer, predeterminers, predetermines, predetermining, redetermination, redeterminations, redetermine, redetermined, redetermines, redetermining, undeterminable, undetermined, undeterred. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Deter" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: datar, Datir, Datner, dator, datter, dayer, deaer, deder, dedere, deeger, deet, deever, Deger, Deiter, deitre, deler, deper, deser, desher, deste, Destec, destep, deta, dete, detek, detel, deterr, detet, dether, detia, deto, Detory, detree, Dette, detter, dever, dewer, dextar, dexteer, dextor, dietro, diter, ditor, Ditter, dohter, dotre, duete, dueter, duette, dunter, dutar, duter, dutter, Dyter, edret, edte, eter, jeter, Odete, reter. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: treed.

-1 letter: deer, deet, dere, dree, rede, reed, rete, teed, tree.

-2 letters: dee, ere, red, ree, ret, ted, tee.

-3 letters: de, ed, er, et, re.

+1 letter: defter, derate, desert, deters, dexter, dieter, metred, redate, reedit, rented, rested, retied, retted, teared, tedder, tender, teredo, termed, tiered.

+2 letters: adepter, aerated, alerted, altered, averted, berated, berthed, catered, centred, cerated, created, credent, crested, dearest, debater, demerit, denture, derated, derates, deserts, dessert, deterge, detrude, dewater, diester, dieters, diether, dimeter, draftee, earthed, entered, erected, erodent, eructed, erudite, erupted, everted, exerted, extrude, fretted, greeted, hearted, merited, metered, mitered, oersted, petered, predate, preedit, pretend, reacted, rebated, recited, redated, redates, reddest, reedits, reested, refuted, related, remated, reputed, resited, retaped, retaxed, retched, retiled, retimed, retired, retread, retried, retuned, retyped, revoted, riveted, sedater, steered, strewed, tabered, tapered, tarweed, tedders, tenders, tenured, teredos, tetrode, tierced, tireder, towered, treaded, treader, treadle, treated, trebled, treddle, trekked, trended, tressed, uttered, watered, wrested.