determent
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- n a communication that makes you afraid to try something
- Said he, "It may be well to ask what sort of determent the voiding of a man's insurance may be when the death penalty does not halt his criminal act.
- But it was a sign that Washington was flexing its slack muscles and bracing itself to launch a policy of determent (i.
- Because their very existential survival depends on having a nuclear determent in a rough neighborhood.