Antonyms for deter
dɪˈtɜrde·ter

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1. deter

   Antonyms:
   abet, advocate, aid, assist, countenance, embolden, encourage, incite, instigate, promote, sanction, support, uphold

   Synonyms:
   baffle, confound, counteract, denounce, disapprove, disconcert, discourage, dissuade, expose, frustrate, hinder, impede, obstruct

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1. deter

   Antonyms:
   encourage, incite, provoke, move, allure, prompt, tempt, seduce, persuade

   Synonyms:
   warn, stop, dissuade, disincline, indispose, dispirit, hinder, prevent, discourage, dishearten, terrify, scare

Matched Categories

1. • Advise
   • Disapprove

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1. deter, discourageverb

   try to prevent; show opposition to

   "We should discourage this practice among our youth"

   Synonyms:
   monish, admonish, warn, discourage, dissuade

2. dissuade, deterverb

   turn away from by persuasion

   "Negative campaigning will only dissuade people"

   Synonyms:
   discourage, dissuade

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1. deterverb

   Synonyms:
   hinder, prevent, dissuade, restrain

Editors ContributionRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. convinvce

   to put someone off doing something

   it was a good job he was deterred from adopting that stray dog.

   Submitted by anonymous on April 2, 2020  

How to use deter in a sentence?

1. Seth Jones:

   If our whole strategy right now, especially in the Pacific, is deterrence, we want to deter conflict – a key part of deterrence is that you have the weapon systems and you have enough of them pre-positioned in key locations so that any actor who is considering the aggressive use of force knows that we mean business and we have those systems in place to use and we’ve got enough of them to use in a protracted conflict, that’s not where we’re at right now.

2. Donald Trump:

   It is in the vital national security interests of America to prevent and deter the the spread and use of deadly chemical weapons.

3. Jason Healey:

   The Obama administration is now the policy of United States to shoot back to deter( an) adversary's cyber operations. If we could get into their network, we could destroy their computers. We could take down the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps network affecting the banks.

4. Dan Crenshaw:

   We didn’t lose the war, we didn’t end the war, but we did give up a strategic position in that war, in that fight, it will now be extremely difficult to deter or deny terrorist safe-havens.

5. Lloyd Austin:

   We remain open to future diplomacy -- and fully prepared to deter and to defeat future aggression.

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