(-rr-) ~ sb (from sth / from doing sth) to make sb decide not to do sth or continue doing sth, especially by making them understand the difficulties and unpleasant results of their actions:
[VN] I told him I wasn't interested, but he wasn't deterred. * The high price of the service could deter people from seeking advice. [also V]
seealsoDETERRENT
Rate this entry
About this entry
This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for deter is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is deter a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, deter is tagged as verb.
Does deter appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — deter appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
What is Lughet?
Lughet is a free trilingual dictionary covering nearly five million entries across Uyghur, Chinese, and English, drawn from more than ten source dictionaries and corpora.
