Deters is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DETERS 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

Words related to DETERS

deter6 deterred10 deterring11

Words that contain DETERS

detersion10 detersive13 detersions11 detersives14

How to use DETERS in a sentence

• It is not a series of hills that deters the gasoline operator, but the one hill, the one grade, the one bad place, which is just beyond the power he has available.
• The fact that Davos is much visited by invalids deters a great many people from going there, for fear of infection.
• Still, standing on the face of treaties, as it does, it deters all evil-disposed parties from interfering with these routes.
• Yet, this rarely deters them from sending their reports.
• A single execution preserves a hundred Russians from destruction, and deters a thousand Mussulmans from treason.
• This deters all from complaining, and they are in a state of utter dismay.
• If the excellence of the outside invite the beholders, the majesty of your mind deters them from too bold approaches, and turns their admiration into religion.
• Fear of damaging Protestantism deters them from exposing the enormous abomination of Protestant monarchs.
• I would wager my mummy that the maiden is this instant well-nigh ready to cast herself at your feet, save that your very excellence deters her.
• No such consideration deters English peasants from using white crockery drinking-vessels.
• Nor does he distinguish between the suffering which improves and the suffering which only punishes and deters.
• What deters us in most instances is not the conviction that such investigations are not, or should not be, interesting, but rather the difficulty of the approach.
• They are strangers to affability, and they maintain a haughtiness and an apparent indifference, which deters a man from courting them.
• A much larger class of people offers the excuse that punishment deters from crime.
• The idea that punishment deters from crime does not mean that the individual prisoner is prevented from another criminal act.
• Even the unthinking public, always clamoring for severe penalties, does not believe that the example of punishment deters.
• The fact is, those who say that punishment deters have no confidence in their own statement.
• A device which presupposes complicated instruments deters the layman and will be used only by those who are well trained.
• If such is the end of punishment it lamentably fails in its purpose, for in a number of cases it neither deters the offender nor the class from which the offender springs.

Similar words containing TER without suffix s and without prefix de

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