to inhibit
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6.3
- verb
- /ɪnˈhɪbɪt/
:
inhibir
- For Archie and Gwen, an important component of success was contributing to rather than inhibiting the success of teammates.
- inhibits the expression
- inhibit their ability
- inhibit behavior
I think just it isn't enough to inhibit the thought and the feeling.
- I think just it isn't enough to inhibit the thought and the feeling.
- And even their language inhibits innovation and the willingness to step out.
- Some ways, gay men are less inhibited.
- Value other people enough to treat them better, inhibit their usual dismissive and devaluing treatment of others.
- Unless someone has had some kind of frontal lobe injury or disease or other brain injury that stops them from inhibiting themselves, people can help themselves.
- They can't inhibit it and these words, and we know that Tourette's is a problem with a basal ganglia.
- And it's very daunting and and very inhibiting.
Examples
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Since adult intervention could inhibit imaginative expression, children were pretty much left alone in their art.
Academic text (1993) -
Laughter also inhibits your reflexes and muscle control, causing sensations like leg weakness.
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And I think all these might also inhibit them from feeling confident in the abstract thinking.
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But mistakes are often viewed as failure and can inhibit efforts to achieve success.
Academic text (2008) -
Child abuse laws may also inhibit the use of corporal punishment.
Academic text (1992) -
Or see that there is a conflict with a teacher that inhibits success in a particular class.
Academic text (1991) -
Perhaps most importantly, they create a classroom environment that supports or inhibits the expression of student opinion.
Academic text (2000) -
Geraldine Dimondstein suggested that this view tends to inhibit teachers' fresh perceptions of the specific qualities of children's art products.
Academic text (1993) -
The Authority is oversized, with an authoritarian, personalized, and blurred decision-making and leadership structure, inhibiting popular influence.
Academic text (2002) -
Stress can inhibit people from expressing their true feelings.
Synonyms
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2.3
Stop something from happening or someone from doing it
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3.5
To try to stop something by making people less willing to do it
108
4.2
Keep yourself from showing feelings or telling others
104
3.7
Stop something from growing or spreading
94
5.6
Make someone less likely to do something by making them fear bad results
88
5.8
To hold back feelings or reactions
75
3.6
To make it difficult for people or things to do something
73
3.5
To limit or control something to stop it getting worse
72
4.6
Keep strong feelings under control so you do not act on them
64
5.6
To limit what someone can do or how they can act
53
5.7
To feel limited and unable to grow or express yourself
49
5.3
To hold back a feeling or reaction so it does not show
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6.5
To slow the progress or movement of people and things
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6.7
To limit growth or activity so it cannot continue
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5.6
To keep strong feelings inside instead of telling others
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6.1
Stop a process or action from happening
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7.7
To stop yourself from showing strong feelings like sadness or anger
To limit someone's freedom or creativity
To make someone not want to do something
Antonyms
How Restrained
Surface Forms
Morphology
inhibit = in + hibit
The stem 'hibit' is not a recognisable English base and the prefix 'in-' does not transparently yield the sense 'restrain/embarrass', so the meaning cannot be derived by an average learner from the components alone.
Etymology
Inhibit comes from Latin in- 'in' and habere 'to hold', the same root you see in habit. Think of 'holding in' a feeling or action: to inhibit someone is to stop them from acting naturally or showing their feelings.