Deterring is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DETERRING in dictionary:

VERB:
• DETER, to hinder or prevent
• discourage (someone) from doing something by instilling doubt or fear of the consequences
• prevent the occurrence of
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to stop from proceeding
• present participle of deter

Words related to DETERRING

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How to use DETERRING in a sentence

• Instead of deterring me, however, this only spurred me on to greater efforts.
• Thus our discipline consists mainly, not in gently leading and encouraging them in the right way, but in deterring them, by fault-finding and punishment, from going wrong.
• But then came the necessity of excusing her long absence, of inventing some lie for the man she worshiped, of deterring him from coming to see her.
• A plan was in consequence laid by the French emperor for the extirpation of the corps, that, as a deterring example, no man should be left alive.
• The automatic barked again, but did not succeed in deterring the monster.
• But it is evident that in claiming the Connecticut he was actuated more by a hope of deterring the further aggressions of English settlers than otherwise.
• And so probably it might have happened in Athens, had not the recent failure of Cylon, with all its miserable consequences, operated as a deterring motive.
• This, I take it, is the meaning of their assertion that death penalties have not the deterring influence that imprisonment for life carries.
• Secondly, it is upheld and patronized by many as a useful instrument for frightening the people and through their fears deterring them from sin.
• In addition to this, the bridge was of low grade and admirably adapted for deterring flood flow.
• But its failure had not the least effect in deterring Cooper from continuing in the course upon which he had started.
• The perturbation of fear rises up as a deterring motive when dangers loom in the distance.
• Prosper, had stopped his allowance, and had done so after deterring him from following any profession by which he might have earned his bread.

Similar words containing TERR without suffix ing and without prefix de

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