Crossword-Solution: DETER 5 letters, 170 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Deter	v. t.	To prevent by fear; hence, to hinder or prevent from action by fear of consequences, or difficulty, risk, etc.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
DETER	anagram	DETRE, TREED

We have 170 clues for the answer “DETER”

Clue	Answers
A way to discourage	1 answer
Act as a disincentive to	1 answer
Attempt to prevent	1 answer
Be a disincentive to	1 answer
Block or dissuade	1 answer
Block the path of	1 answer
Cause to have second thoughts	1 answer
Cause to pause.	1 answer
Cause to think twice	1 answer
Check from an act	1 answer
Construct a roadblock	1 answer
Curb by fear.	1 answer
Discourage from acting	1 answer
Discourage from an objective.	1 answer
Discourage from doing	1 answer
Discourage from proceeding	1 answer
Discourage, put off	1 answer
Dissuade by threat, maybe	1 answer
Dissuade from acting	1 answer
Engage in discouragement	1 answer
Frighten (from)	1 answer
Hardly encourage	1 answer
Help prevent	1 answer
Impede, as an attack	1 answer
Keep (from doing)	1 answer
Keep from acting	1 answer
Make think twice	1 answer
Prevent from acting	1 answer
Prevent from action.	1 answer
Prevent from doing	1 answer
Prevent from doing something	1 answer
Prevent from proceeding	1 answer
Prevent or discourage	1 answer
Prevent through fear.	1 answer
Prevent through intimidation	1 answer
Prevent via intimidation	1 answer
Put the chill on	1 answer
Put up obstacles.	1 answer
Red-light	1 answer
Restrain by a threat.	1 answer
Restrain from acting	1 answer
Restrain through fear.	1 answer
Restrain through intimidation	1 answer
Steer away	1 answer
Steer in a different direction	1 answer
Stop by threats	1 answer
Stop from doing	1 answer
Stop, perhaps	1 answer
Talk out of; discourage	1 answer
Try to prevent	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

ETEAR

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Unscramble DETER 5-letter words that start with D 5-letter words that end in R 5-letter words containing ET 5-letter words containing ER 5-letter words with D and E

Sentences with DETER (5)

That is a noble though perhaps an unpromising love which not even the fear of breeding aversion in the bosom of the one beloved can deter from combating his or her errors.

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

There were three policemen too, one of whom was mounted, doing their best, under instructions from Stent, to keep the people back and deter them from approaching the cylinder.

The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells 1992

Computer security experts worked for 3 days hours to first deter- mine the cause of the network slowdown and then to restore the network to normal operation.

Terminal Compromise Winn Schwartau 1993

She would not allow the presence of Lucy, nor the consciousness of some injustice towards herself, to deter her from saying that she was happy to see him, and that she had very much regretted being from home, when he called before in Berkeley Street.

Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen 1994

Boycotting.] [From Captain Boycott, a land agent in Mayo, Ireland, so treated in 1880.] To combine against (a landlord, tradesman, employer, or other person), to withhold social or business relations from him, and to deter other from holding such relations; to subject to a boycott.

Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Noah Webster 1995

Quotes with DETER (3)

An over examination of life can deter you from life itself

Ilyas Kassam

The object of this Essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely the dealings of society with the individual in the way of compulsion and control, whether the means used be physical force in the form of legal penalties, or the moral coercion of public opinion. That principle is, that the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection. T…

John Stuart Mill On Liberty

Though there are many barriers to expressing unreserved love, no such impediments to a developing a loving and generous heart deter a spiritual warrior. He who is without love is bereft of richness of life. Compassion, empathy, kindness, tenderness, and patience are essential for love. Anger, frustration, jealously, greed, and hatred are the antonym to love. When we love other people with all our ferocity, we transcend the misuse, waste, pain, tragedy, death, anguish, erotic …

Kilroy J. Oldster Dead Toad Scrolls

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 593 times in crossword archives (1948–2025).