verb [VN]
1 to prevent sth from happening or make it happen more slowly or less frequently than normal:
A lack of oxygen may inhibit brain development in the unborn child. * Financial considerations are inhibiting access to higher education.
2 ~ sb (from sth / from doing sth) to make sb nervous or embarrassed so that they are unable to do sth:
The managing director's presence inhibited them from airing their problems.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for inhibit is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does inhibit appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — inhibit appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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