deterring Definition

dissuading, deterrent, preventing, discourage, discouraging, curbing, combating, deterrence, stopping, avoiding, countering, impeding, prevention, averting, halting, suppressing, blocking, stemming, pheromone, disheartening, containing, curtailing, thwarting, scaring, reducing, protecting, attracting, penalizing, lessening, detecting, minimizing, counteracting, educating, enforcing, restraining, precluding, forestalling, mitigating, neutralizing, safeguarding, eradicating, undermining, motivating, harming, frighten, constraining, reining, dampening, limiting, condoning, facilitating, prohibiting, spurring, quelling, luring, apprehending, decreasing, inhibiting, hinder, encourage, restricting, ridding, impede, legitimizing, emboldening, identifying, stanching, bolstering, shielding, punishing, dispersing, boosting, desensitising, distract, removing, isolating, destabilizing, habituate, appeasing, interdicting, aimed, alleviating, prosecuting, advantaging, enhancing, undercutting, allaying, fostering, targeting, stabilizing, profiting, backfire, outweigh, repelling, snaring, checkmating, entrapping, instilling, refraining, defusing,