inhibit
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~ make (someone) self-conscious and as a result unable to act naturally; "his father's cold and distant demeanor inhibited him emotionally"
inhibit
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~ prohibit, forbid, or prevent from doing something; "Contact between the young was inhibited by strict social customs"
inhibit
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~ limit, block, or decrease the action or function of; "inhibit the action of the enzyme"; "inhibit the rate of a chemical reaction"
inhibit
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~ consciously restrain from showing; of emotions, desires, impulses, or behavior; "suppress a smile"; "he let his anger bottle up until he exploded"
inhibited
— Adjective
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~ held back or restrained or prevented; "in certain conditions previously inhibited conditioned reactions can reappear"
inhibition
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~ (psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires
inhibition
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~ (physiology) the process whereby nerves can retard or prevent the functioning of an organ or part; "the inhibition of the heart by the vagus nerve"
inhibition
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~ the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof); "they were restrained by a prohibition in their charter"; "a medical inhibition of alcoholic beverages"; "he ignored his parents' forbiddance"
inhibition
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~ the quality of being inhibited
inhibitor
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~ a substance that retards or stops an activity
inhibitory
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~ restrictive of action; "a repressive regime"; "an overly strict and inhibitory discipline"
inhomogeneity
— Noun
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~ the quality of being inhomogeneous
inhomogeneous
— Adjective
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~ not homogeneous
inhospitable
— Adjective
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~ not hospitable; "they are extremely inhospitable these days"; "her greeting was cold and inhospitable"
inhospitable
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~ unfavorable to life or growth; "the barren inhospitable desert"; "inhospitable mountain areas"