EGAVE

deter

About 2.45 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. verb To prevent something from happening.
  2. verb To persuade someone not to do something; to discourage.
    Their boss deterred them from both taking holidays at the same time, claiming he couldn't manage it all on his own.
  3. verb To distract someone from something.

Similar words

dissuade discourage deterrence deterrent avoiding preclude avoid prevention avert prevent

Often followed by

the him them a us others me you any or

Word family

determent determents deterrabilities deterrability deterrable deterred deterring deters

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