1 [C,U] a shy or nervous feeling that stops you from expressing your real thoughts or feelings:
The children were shy at first, but soon lost their inhibitions. * She had no inhibitions about making her opinions known.
2 [U] (formal) the act of restricting or preventing a process or an action:
the inhibition of growth
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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In this entry, inhibition is tagged as noun.
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