Usually means: Discourage someone from taking action.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. deter: Merriam-Webster
  2. deter: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. deter: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. deter: Collins English Dictionary
  5. deter: Vocabulary.com
  6. Deter, deter: Wordnik
  7. deter: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. deter: Wiktionary
  9. deter: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. deter: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. deter: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Deter, deter: Dictionary.com
  13. deter: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. deter: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Deter: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. deter: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. deter: Rhymezone
  18. deter: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. deter: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. deter: FreeDictionary.org
  21. deter: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. deter: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. deter: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. deter: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deter: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. DETER: Acronym Finder
  2. deter: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To prevent something from happening.
verb:  (transitive) To persuade someone not to do something; to discourage.
verb:  (transitive) To distract someone from something.
noun:  A surname from German.

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