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View definitions for deterring

deterring

adjective as in stopping

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Example Sentences

Your effect in deterring others to travel without proper consideration would be hugely significant.

This can be a helpful guide to other nations in deterring ISIS from recruiting.

Political drift is deterring foreign investors and frightening off overseas business.

He said deterring Hamas anew would require “massive air strikes for some days.”

Deterring Hamas anew would require “massive air strikes for some days.”

Hence that wholesome fear of God so operative in deterring evil and stimulating good is removed.

The process of driving out, and also of deterring, has failed.

It was preposterous to claim for such a scene as this that it conveyed any great moral lesson, or had any deterring influence.

So the fight went on, the mist hiding the Germans at longer range and their torpedo attacks deterring us from a closer encounter.

His first losses, instead of deterring him from further speculation, led him on to rasher ventures.

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On this page you'll find 8 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to deterring, such as: discouraging, hampering, impeding, and deterrent.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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