Word Meanings - DETERRENCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That which deters; a deterrent; a hindrance.

Related words: (words related to DETERRENCE)

• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• DETERSIVELY
  In a way to cleanse.
• DETERSIVENESS
  The quality of cleansing.
• DETERSIVE
  Cleansing; detergent. -- n.
• DETERRENT
  Serving to deter. "The deterrent principle." E. Davis.
• DETERSION
  The act of deterging or cleansing, as a sore.
• HINDRANCE
  1. The act of hindering, or the state of being hindered. 2. That which hinders; an impediment. What various hindrances we meet. Cowper. Something between a hindrance and a help. Wordsworth. Syn. -- Impediment; obstruction; obstacle; difficulty;