deterred

[dih-turd]

adjective

1. discouraged or restrained from acting or proceeding.

   A visible thief is a deterred thief, so installing motion-sensing lights on your property helps to protect it.

2. kept from happening; prevented or checked.

   Assuming that those 79,000 deterred property crimes have an average cost of $1,900 each, that’s a savings of over $150 million.

verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of deter.

Other Word Forms

• undeterred adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of deterred¹

deter ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

I’m a sucker for watermelon lemonade, which they do not offer, but I wasn’t deterred.

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But most Chinese buyers are independent “teapot” refiners that pay in other currencies and are unlikely to be deterred.

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The company’s prices have deterred some inflation-weary consumers, at the same time that a fixation on protein has consumers doing more shopping in supermarkets’ meat cases.

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But these headwinds haven’t deterred the investors who have long focused on small caps.

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The police's action, however, does not appear to have deterred the group.

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