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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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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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McCandless was deterred not in the least. (source)deterred = discouraged (prevented from doing something)
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The mayor's wife was not deterred. (source)deterred = discouraged (prevented from continuing)
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Was she trying to deter Szpirglas from harming us, thinking he'd fear incurring the full wrath of the police? (source)deter = discourage an action
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I began to believe that no number of border guards will deter children like Enrique, who are willing to endure so much to reach the United States. (source)
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He disbelieved the story which even some of the most faithful confirmed, the story of really evil children who were not deterred by mutilation, but came back with all the scars. (source)deterred = prevented
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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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"I think you do," said my father, sounding undeterred.† (source)undeterred = not preventedstandard 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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But he's not sure he has the energy anymore to put up a deterring facade, to spot potential threats and fend off attacks. (source)deterring = preventative
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He thought of trying to get out of bed, but the thought of the thump and the drop and the accompanying escalation of pain constantly deterred him. (source)deterred = prevented
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It didn't deter us. (source)deter = discourage
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Wes stood undeterred a»d again asked her what was wrong.† (source)undeterred = not prevented
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Detering meant to outwit them: he fastened a thin wire to the roof and suspended his bread from it.† (source)
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