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Definition of Deter

Deter

To prevent by fear; hence, to hinder or prevent from action by fear of consequences, or difficulty, risk, etc.

Related Definitions:

Action, By, Difficulty, Fear, From, Hence, Hinder, Of, Or, Prevent, Risk, To

Deter Quotations

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
Abraham Lincoln

Democrats always assure us that deterrence will work, but when the time comes to deter, they're against it.
Ann Coulter

My mom started smoking when she was 11. She went to the hill next door to try her first cigarette. She set the entire hill on fire, but it didn't deter her.
Loni Anderson

Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power.
Al Gore

Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression.
John Foster Dulles

The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it's going to go and where you'll wind up. Following the bend in the river and staying on your own path means that you are on the right track. Don't let anyone deter you from that.
Eartha Kitt

While there are many obstacles that deter students from going to college, finances by no means should be the deciding factor.
Bobby Scott

This means that the only function of nuclear weapons, while they exist, is to deter a nuclear attack.
Joseph Rotblat

It is a warning to all those who may think about becoming involved with a terrorist network, people who are willing to destroy their own lives are hard to deter.
Otto Schily

Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously.
Barbara Deming

Our policy for the last many years has been to deter the Chinese government in Beijing from ever coming into the position where they thought they had enough leverage over the U.S. to cross the Straits of Taiwan.
Bob Filner

Let's stop pretending we can arrest our way to safety and security. Despite all the fine work that policemen and women do, we have got to find other solutions to deter crime.
Carrie P. Meek

We only have two things that we share in this life; we are born and we die. And what we do in between those times, we've got to be happy. I don't let the outside world deter me.
Dawn Fraser

As history since Hiroshima shows, the best, perhaps the only, way to curb war is to deter it with such overwhelming force as to turn it from a struggle into suicide.
Martin van Creveld

No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing.
Bernard Levin

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Deter Translations

deter in Dutch is verjagen, afschrikken
deter in German is abschrecken
deter in Latin is terreo

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