Term: deterrence: the act or process of discouraging actions or preventing occurrences by instilling fear or doubt or anxiety
Candidate hypernym: event: something that happens at a given place and time → 1
Candidate hypernym: omission: any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrases → 0
Candidate hypernym: brant: small dark geese that breed in the north and migrate southward → 0
Candidate hypernym: venae palpebrales: veins of the eyelids → 0
Candidate hypernym: mare liberum: (free sea) a navigable body of water to which all nations have equal access → 0
Candidate hypernym: galega: small genus of Eurasian herbs: goat's rue → 0
Candidate hypernym: reducing: loss of excess weight (as by dieting); becoming slimmer → 0
Candidate hypernym: marquess: a British peer ranking below a duke and above an earl → 0
Candidate hypernym: bean weevil: larvae live in and feed on growing or stored beans → 0
Candidate hypernym: charina: boas of western North America → 0
Candidate hypernym: dialysis: separation of substances in solution by means of their unequal diffusion through semipermeable membranes → 0