Synonym: discourage, hinder, prevent, prohibit. Antonym: recommend. Similar words: determine, deterrent, determined, deteriorate, determining, predetermine, indeterminate, determination. Meaning: [dɪ'tɜː] v. 1. try to prevent; show opposition to 2. turn away from by persuasion.
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61. The buzzard was heading for the updraft above the Edge, and nothing was going to deter it.
62. This did not deter him, as, between 1980 and 1984, he completed over 400 pages of manuscript.
63. It does not deter firms from supplying on credit, and there is always insurance cover to fall back on.
64. The shorts were dyed pink to deter their theft by jail inmates.
65. Field experiments have proved that this startle display does indeed deter attacks from small birds.
66. This did not deter the crowds and demonstrators getting through the police lines but not without casualties.
67. An immense pile of out-of-date articles will possibly obscure the purpose in view and deter the student from learning.
68. The absence of a low folate value should not deter the physician from obtaining a duodenal biopsy specimen.
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69. There were warning signs now to deter people from going farther.
70. This is unlikely to deter parents wishing to start a family at a more mature age than usual.
71. But Giap taught them to move during rainstorms to deter pursuit, or wade through streams to cover their tracks.
72. Higher taxes and political uncertainty would deter investment and destroy jobs.
73. I prepared the soil with humus, watered the plants and sprayed with a garlic solution to deter bugs.
74. The gunfire that rattled from the house was not designed to deter.
75. This will not only protect the notice face from the weather but also deter the vandal.
76. Surround carrot patch with a 15-18in high polythene fence to deter root fly.
77. She brushes her teeth with fluoride, but spits to deter the Evil Eye.
78. As he walks, he passes a gibbet where the corpses of three crows are hung to deter their fellows.
79. Neither Royal Liver nor any of the other friendly societies has taken any action so far to deter carpetbaggers.
80. The main aim of cruise missiles is to deter an attack.
81. To deter them, the Dinamo side linked arms with their opponents as they left the pitch.
82. This did not deter this student from persisting with different approaches to overcome difficulties.
83. But your job is not to deter people from having meetings, merely to ensure that the necessary ones are fully productive.
84. Planning may also deter purchasers from undertaking opportunistic acquisitions for short term motives without regard to long term strategic aims.
85. And more decisively, they imposed a withholding tax to deter foreign residents from buying domestic deutschmark bonds.
86. Using a combination of alcohol and dry ice, the firm has pioneered a safe and effective system to deter thieves.
87. They could put the road-closure down to a burst water-main - enough to deter the local small-town reporters.
88. It didn't deter many of Hollywood's young stars in those days of silent movies from using drugs.
89. The unpleasant taste the drug produces is used to deter alcoholics from drinking.
90. Such problems would inconvenience existing passengers and may deter potential users.
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