Inhibit(v. t.) To check; to hold back; to restrain; to hinder.
Inhibit(v. t.) To forbid; to prohibit; to interdict.
Inhibited(imp. & p. p.) of Inhibit
Inhibiting(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inhibit
Inhibition(n.) The act of inhibiting, or the state of being inhibited; restraint; prohibition; embargo.
Inhibition(n.) A stopping or checking of an already present action; a restraining of the function of an organ, or an agent, as a digestive fluid or ferment, etc.; as, the inhibition of the respiratory center by the pneumogastric nerve; the inhibition of reflexes, etc.
Inhibition(n.) A writ from a higher court forbidding an inferior judge from further proceedings in a cause before; esp., a writ issuing from a higher ecclesiastical court to an inferior one, on appeal.
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