Hypertext Webster Gateway: "inhibit"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Inhibit \In*hib"it\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Inhibited}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Inhibiting}.] [L. inhibitus, p. p. of inhibere; pref.
in- in + habere to have, hold. See {Habit}.]
1. To check; to hold back; to restrain; to hinder.
Their motions also are excited or inhibited . . . by
the objects without them. --Bentley.
2. To forbid; to prohibit; to interdict.
All men were inhibited, by proclamation, at the
dissolution, so much as to mention a Parliament.
--Clarendon.
Burial may not be inhibited or denied to any one.
--Ayliffe.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
inhibit
v 1: to put down by force or authority; "suppress a nascent
uprising", "stamp down on littering" "conquer one's
desires" [syn: {suppress}, {stamp down}, {subdue}, {conquer},
{curb}]
2: limit the range or extent of; "Contact between the young was
inhibited by strict social customs"
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