deter

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• Received-Pronunciation: /dɪˈtɜː/
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• General-American: /dɪˈtɝ/
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• US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• Scotland: /dɪˈtɛr/
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• New-Zealand: /dɪˈtøː/
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• /dɪˈteː/ Liverpool, fair–fur merger
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• /dɪˈtɛː/ Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger
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• /dɪˈtɜː(ɹ)/ Lancashire, fair–fur merger
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• rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)
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• CMU ARPABET: D IH0 T ER1 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Borrowed from German Deter.

Borrowed from Latin dēterreō (“deter, discourage”), from de (“from”) + terreō (“to frighten”).

76 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: رَدَعَ (radaʕa) — to prevent something from happening
• Bulgarian: възпирам (vǎzpiram) — to prevent something from happening
• Chinese Mandarin: 防止 (fángzhǐ) — to prevent something from happening
• Chinese Mandarin: 阻止 (zǔzhǐ) — to prevent something from happening
• Chinese Mandarin: 預防 /预防 (yùfáng) — to prevent something from happening
• Czech: odvrátit — to prevent something from happening
• Dutch: verhinderen — to prevent something from happening
• Finnish: estää — to prevent something from happening
• French: empêcher — to prevent something from happening
• German: verhindern — to prevent something from happening
• German: abwenden — to prevent something from happening
• German: unterbinden — to prevent something from happening
• Hungarian: elrettent — to prevent something from happening
• Icelandic: hindra — to prevent something from happening
• Italian: prevenire — to prevent something from happening
• Japanese: 防ぐ (fusegu) — to prevent something from happening
• Japanese: 阻む (habamu) — to prevent something from happening
• Japanese: 阻止する (soshi suru) — to prevent something from happening
• Māori: kaiwaenga — to prevent something from happening
• Māori: whakapāhunu — to prevent something from happening
• Norwegian: forhindre — to prevent something from happening
• Portuguese: impedir — to prevent something from happening
• Romanian: împiedica — to prevent something from happening
• Romanian: opri — to prevent something from happening
• Russian: предотвраща́ть (predotvraščátʹ) — to prevent something from happening
• Russian: предотврати́ть (predotvratítʹ) — to prevent something from happening
• Serbo-Croatian: osujetiti — to prevent something from happening
• Serbo-Croatian: spriječiti — to prevent something from happening
• Slovak: odvrátiť — to prevent something from happening
• Slovene: preprečiti — to prevent something from happening
• Spanish: evitar — to prevent something from happening
• Spanish: prevenir — to prevent something from happening
• Spanish: disuadir — to prevent something from happening
• Swedish: förhindra — to prevent something from happening
• Swedish: avstyra — to prevent something from happening
• Bulgarian: разубеждавам (razubeždavam) — to persuade someone not to do something
• Czech: odradit — to persuade someone not to do something
• Czech: odstrašit — to persuade someone not to do something
• Dutch: ontmoedigen — to persuade someone not to do something
• Finnish: pidätellä — to persuade someone not to do something
• Finnish: estellä — to persuade someone not to do something
• French: dissuader — to persuade someone not to do something
• French: décourager — to persuade someone not to do something
• German: abhalten — to persuade someone not to do something
• German: abbringen — to persuade someone not to do something
• German: zurückhalten — to persuade someone not to do something
• Ancient Greek: ἀποτρέπω (apotrépō) — to persuade someone not to do something
• Italian: scoraggiare — to persuade someone not to do something
• Japanese: 思い止まらせる (omoitodomaraseru) — to persuade someone not to do something
• Japanese: 抑止する (yokushi suru) — to persuade someone not to do something
• Lithuanian: atgrasyti — to persuade someone not to do something
• Māori: whakapāhunu — to persuade someone not to do something
• Māori: taitu — to persuade someone not to do something
• Norwegian: avskrekke — to persuade someone not to do something
• Portuguese: dissuadir — to persuade someone not to do something
• Portuguese: desencorajar — to persuade someone not to do something
• Romanian: descuraja — to persuade someone not to do something
• Romanian: deconsilia — to persuade someone not to do something
• Russian: отгова́ривать (otgovárivatʹ) — to persuade someone not to do something
• Russian: отговори́ть (otgovorítʹ) — to persuade someone not to do something
• Russian: разубежда́ть (razubeždátʹ) — to persuade someone not to do something
• Russian: разубеди́ть (razubedítʹ) — to persuade someone not to do something
• Russian: уде́рживать (udérživatʹ) — to persuade someone not to do something
• Russian: удержа́ть (uderžátʹ) — to persuade someone not to do something
• Serbo-Croatian: odgovoriti — to persuade someone not to do something
• Serbo-Croatian: odvratiti — to persuade someone not to do something
• Slovak: odradiť — to persuade someone not to do something
• Slovak: odstrašiť — to persuade someone not to do something
• Slovene: odvrniti — to persuade someone not to do something
• Spanish: disuadir — to persuade someone not to do something
• Spanish: desalentar — to persuade someone not to do something
• Spanish: deterrer — to persuade someone not to do something
• Swedish: avråda — to persuade someone not to do something
• Swedish: avskräcka — to persuade someone not to do something
• German: ablenken — to distract someone from something
• German: beeinträchtigen — to distract someone from something