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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
inhibit/ɪnˈhɪbɪt/

▶verb (inhibits, inhibiting, inhibited)

1 hinder, restrain, or prevent (an action or process).

2 make (someone) unable to act in a relaxed and natural way.

– derivatives
inhibited adjective,
inhibitive adjective.

– origin ME: from L. inhibere ‘hinder’, from in- ‘in’ + habere ‘hold’.

'inhibit' also found in these Oxford entries:

anti-knock - antiretroviral - beta blocker - cramp - firewall - GABA - monoamine oxidase inhibitor - overawe - pressure point - repress - repressor - SSRI - suppress

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