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.
v. 1. try to prevent; show opposition to 2. turn away from by persuasion. 
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151. Suchexperiences interrupt, deter, or prevent the normal progress toward autonomy and self - actualization.
152. Several earlier polls, including a CNN and an AP-Ipsos poll showed Americans split nearly evenly over whether to build a fence along the Mexican border to deter illegal immigration.
153. Iran's Fars news agency reports that a senior Iranian nuclear official has declared that Tehran will join the "world nuclear club" within a month to deter possible attacks on the country.
154. But more work is needed to deter mine the proper dosage of bentazon and evaluate the environmental impacts of increased use of the pesticides.
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155. All the doors have been bricked up to deter vandals.
156. Arquilla calls his plan "a nonlethal way to deter lethal conflict.
157. Chicago's PSN includes tough gun policing, federal prosecutions and—most important, or so researchers found—meetings with former felons to deter them from returning to crime.
158. Such security or equivalent assurance shall not unreasonably deter recourse to these procedures.
159. If controller is linked with alarm output and network fire control expansion board, it can also drive alarm annunciator calling to deter crime and warn the security guard.
160. The objective of treble damages in US antitrust law is to provide an incentive for victims and deter antitrust violation.
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