Because Israel lost a war in Lebanon in 2006, it led many massive bombardment campaigns in Gaza to try to restore its deterrence capacity.
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Deterrence
//dɪˈtɛɹəns//
Synonyms for "deterrence" (48 found)
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Related words (24)
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38 translations across 13 languages.
Arabic
3 entries- رَدْع noun (act of deterring)
- رَدْع noun (action taken by states or alliances)
- رَدْع noun (art of producing fear of attacking)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 威懾 /威慑 noun (act of deterring)
Dutch
2 entries- afschrikking noun (art of producing fear of attacking)
- ontrading noun (act of deterring)
Finnish
3 entries- estely noun (act of deterring)
- pelote noun (action taken by states or alliances)
- pelottelu noun (art of producing fear of attacking)
French
2 entries- dissuasion noun (act of deterring)
- dissuasion noun (art of producing fear of attacking)
Georgian
3 entries- შეკავება noun (act of deterring)
- შეკავება noun (action taken by states or alliances)
- შეკავების პოლიტიკა noun (action taken by states or alliances)
German
3 entries- Abschreckung noun (act of deterring)
- Abschreckung noun (action taken by states or alliances)
- Abschreckung noun (art of producing fear of attacking)
Greek
1 entries- αποτροπή noun (action taken by states or alliances)
Hungarian
1 entries- elrettentés noun (act of deterring)
Portuguese
4 entries- deterrência noun (act of deterring)
- deterrência noun (action taken by states or alliances)
- deterrência noun (art of producing fear of attacking)
- dissuasão noun (act of deterring)
Russian
3 entries- сде́рживание noun (art of producing fear of attacking)
- удержа́ние noun (act of deterring)
- устраше́ние noun (art of producing fear of attacking)
Spanish
4 entries- deterrencia noun (act of deterring)
- deterrencia noun (action taken by states or alliances)
- deterrencia noun (art of producing fear of attacking)
- disuasión noun (act of deterring)
Swedish
2 entries- avskräckning noun (action taken by states or alliances)
- avskräckning noun (art of producing fear of attacking)
Sample sentences
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Does Algeria have missile deterrence?
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What's Algeria's greatest military deterrence?
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Strategic nuclear arms are only there for deterrence.
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