Usually means: Discouraging action through fear or threat.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word deterring:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. deterring: Merriam-Webster
  2. deterring: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. deterring: Collins English Dictionary
  4. deterring: Vocabulary.com
  5. Deterring, deterring: Wordnik
  6. deterring: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. deterring: Wiktionary
  8. Deterring, deterring: Dictionary.com
  9. deterring: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Deterring: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Deterring: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. deterring: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. deterring: FreeDictionary.org
  14. deterring: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deterring: Legal dictionary

(Note: See deter as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Deter)

verb:  (transitive) To prevent something from happening.
verb:  (transitive) To persuade someone not to do something; to discourage.
verb:  (transitive) To distract someone from something.
noun:  A surname from German.
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