0 present participle of inhibit
1 to prevent someone from doing something by making them feel nervous or embarrassed :
A common language often constrains one's thinking, thereby inhibiting the development of radically new models.
Effects of inhibiting glutamine synthetase and blocking glutamate uptake on b-wave generation in the isolated rat retina.
But the factors inhibiting more deliberative discussions - structural, cultural and motivational in nature - should be amenable to some change, particularly through education.
Other modifications can alter the interaction with complement, either enhancing or inhibiting complement activation.
The empirical results indicate that democracy has a significant and positive effect on economic growth by inhibiting regime interruption and enhancing system adjustability.
I then show how colonial institutions created noise in these signals, inhibiting widespread cooperation.
This is in agreement with the intuitive idea that stratification effects stabilize two-dimensional flows against three-dimensional disturbances by inhibiting vertical motions.
Critics of treatment for inhibiting incurable disease and infertility.
