Sample Sentences fordeter (editor-reviewed)
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The goal is to catch and punish enough tax cheaters to deter others from trying to cheat on their taxes.deter = prevent (discourage)
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She was slow to decide what to do, but once she did nothing could deter her from her chosen course of action.deter = discourage (prevent)
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Obviously the child was about to be shot as a punishment for his offence and to deter others. (source)deter = try to prevent
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The fact that it was three A.M. and raining buckets didn't deter them. (source)deter = discourage
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"I don't want to go." ... Mama pulled Thalia up from the seat by the hands, leaned in, and fixed her with a gaze I knew well. Not a thing on this earth could deter her now. (source)deter = prevent
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It didn't deter us. (source)deter = discourage
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McCandless was deterred not in the least. (source)deterred = discouraged (prevented from doing something)
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He carried the bodies up to the prairie, laid them in their shallow graves and helped July pile rocks on the graves, a pitiful expedient that wouldn't deter the varmints for long. (source)deter = discourage an action
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Wes stood undeterred a»d again asked her what was wrong.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in undeterred means not and reverses the meaning of deterred. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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Steve Gipe, Don Peterson, Martha Kongsgaard, Peter Goldman, Rebecca Roe, Keith Mark Johnson, Jim Clash, Muneo Nukita, Helen Trueman, Steve Swenson, Conrad Anker, Alex Lowe, Colin Grissom, Kitty Calhoun, Peter Hackett, David Shlim, Brownie Schoene, Michael Chessler, Marion Boyd, Graem Nelson, Stephen P. Martin, Jane Tranel, Ed Ward, Sharon Roberts, Matt Hale, Roman Dial, Peggy Dial, Steve Rottler, David Trione, Deborah Shaw, Nick Miller, Dan Cauthorn, Greg Collum, Dave Jones, Fran Kaul, Dielle Havlis, Lee Joseph, Pat Joseph, Pierret Vogt, Paul Vogt, David Quammen, Tim Cahill, Paul Theroux, Charles Bowden Alison Lewis, Barbara Detering, Lisa Anderheggen-Led, Helen Forbes, and Heidi Baye.† (source)
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[referring to the physical beating they had to give to the soldier with claustrophobia] We do it quickly and mercilessly, and at last he sits down quietly. The others have turned pale; let's hope it deters them. (source)deters = prevents (more of the same from)
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And now submarines are armed with mass murder, our silly, only way of deterring mass murder. (source)deterring = trying to prevent
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...she's not about to be deterred: (source)deterred = stopped (prevented from continuing)
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The Italian side replied with a counter-barrage that failed to deter the Austrians from further shots, (source)deter = prevent
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August, completely undeterred, stepped back and crossed his arms.† (source)
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Detering trembles and throws his rifle on the ground.† (source)
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