All 21 Uses of
deter
in
All Quiet on the Western Front
- He sits down to eat as thin as a grasshopper and gets up as big as a bug in the family way; Haie Westhus, of the same age, a peat-digger, who can easily hold a ration-loaf in his hand and say: Guess what I've got in my fist; then Detering, a peasant, who thinks of nothing but his farm-yard and his wife; and finally Stanislaus Katczinsky, the leader of our group, shrewd, cunning, and hard-bitten, forty years of age, with a face of the soil, blue eyes, bent shoulders, and a remarkable…†
Chpt 1
- Detering stands up.†
Chpt 4
- Detering raves and yells out: "Shoot them!†
Chpt 4
- Detering raises up his gun and aims.†
Chpt 4
- Detering trembles and throws his rifle on the ground.†
Chpt 4
- Detering walks up and down cursing: "Like to know what harm they've done.†
Chpt 4
- "And you, Detering!" asks Miller like an inquisitor.†
Chpt 5
- Detering is sparing with his words.†
Chpt 5
- Kat and Detering and Haie will go back to their jobs because they had them already.†
Chpt 5
- They're for us," growls Detering.†
Chpt 6
- Detering says it is a sure sign of a coming bombardment.†
Chpt 6
- Detering meant to outwit them: he fastened a thin wire to the roof and suspended his bread from it.†
Chpt 6
- Detering, Kropp, and Kat hold their pocket-torches ready.†
Chpt 6
- [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.
Chpt 6 *deters = prevents (more of the same from)
- "And generals too," adds Detering, "they become famous through war."†
Chpt 9
- There are other people back behind there who profit by the war, that's certain," growls Detering.†
Chpt 9
- We are just the right people for that;—Kat, Albert, Miller, Tjaden, Detering, our whole gang is there.†
Chpt 10
- There is the mad story of Detering.†
Chpt 11
- In the evening Detering was not to be seen.†
Chpt 11
- He made out it was nothing, and I said to him: "Don't do anything silly, Detering.†
Chpt 11
- We have heard nothing more of Detering.†
Chpt 11
Definition:
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(deter) try to prevent; or prevent