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What does deter mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word deter? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To prevent something from happening.
  2. (transitive) To persuade someone not to do something; to discourage.
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Pectoral fin on upper side has black tip thought to mimic dorsal fin of venomous weever fish to deter predators.
The project has been introduced to help police solve crimes and deter criminals from further offending.
Despite returning from the States the previous day jet lag did not deter her scoring a brilliant goal playing at half forward.
We will take 12,000 refugees a year, but we will not have people arriving here illegally and we will act to deter that occurring.
Suffice to say that it doesn't for a moment deter me from living and working in London this coming year.
And she argued a swingbridge, which would give priority to boats over vehicles, might deter people from using the road as a rat run.

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