Seeing “deterring”
in your dream

Dreaming of slapping someone means you are advising him and deterring him from vice in which he is indulging, perhaps unconsciously.

Extinguishing a fire in a dream means putting off or quelling a riot, deterring a war or abolishing innovation. If one sees himself in a dream smothering an already dead fire, it means that he is trying to rekindle an old war or to provoke evil between people.