deter verb
ADV. hardly Her words of warning would hardly deter him. | effectively, sufficiently Will this harsher punishment effectively deter criminals? | easily
VERB + DETER be likely/unlikely to | be enough to, be sufficient to | attempt to | be designed to | do little to, do nothing to The present system does little to deter corporate crime.
PREP. from These new rules are likely to deter people from coming forward for help.
You can also check other dicts: deter (English, 中文解释 ), wordnet sense, Collins Definition