Verb
- simple past tense and past participle of deter
deterred
verb
Deterred is defined as to have prevented or discouraged something from happening.
An example of deterred is for a fallen tree to have prevented someone from driving down their street.
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Sentence Examples
- He was deterred from research into the I J.
- Indeed it is said that Hadrian, conscious of the difficulty of retaining it, had contemplated its abandonment and was only deterred by consideration for the safety of the numerous Roman settlers.
- In 1572 Louis, not deterred by previous disaster, raised a small force in France, and, suddenly entering Hainaut, captured Mons (May 23).
- He was not deterred by the fear of ridicule or the reproach of Utopianism from associating himself openly, and with all the ardour of his nature, with the peace party in England.
- Ochino was at once cited, but was deterred from presenting himself at Rome by the warnings of Peter Martyr and of Cardinal Contarini, whom he found at Bologna, dying of poison administered by the reactionary party.
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WORDS NEAR deterred IN THE DICTIONARY
- deterred
- determinizing
- deterr
- deterration