deter-v; 1 Senses

Sense Number 1: discourage or prevent from something

Examples:
The considerations that deterred the ancient Pharaoh deterred us
too.
Our nuclear strength deterred the USSR from raining missles on us.
The temperate herbivores were deterred by lower concentrations nutreints.

Mappings:
VerbNet: forbid-67
FrameNet: NP
PropBank: deter.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1, 2