Definitions

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  • adjective discouraging (a person) from action by threat of punishment.

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  • verb Present participle of inhibit.

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Examples

  • Phytosterols can assist in inhibiting the uptake of cholesterol.

    4th International Dairy-Free Conference Steve Carper 2007

  • Phytosterols can assist in inhibiting the uptake of cholesterol.

    Archive 2007-11-01 Steve Carper 2007

  • I have to admit I had a sneaking suspicion that the idea of inhibiting hair growth might not be all that healthy, but I didn't care.

    Product Placement- Shaving Sucks. 2006

  • Serious staff shortages, under-utilisation of capital expenditure and grossly under-served rural and peri-urban areas were identified as inhibiting factors in service delivery improvement.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2002

  • This shows that while the third or lowest level does its own work, it is yet in a sense under the weight -- what physiologists call the inhibiting action -- of the higher brain masses.

    The Story of the Mind James Mark Baldwin 1897

  • Customs and traditions which look down upon women in the society, different forms of corruption have also been identified as inhibiting factors to women's active participation in public life including politics.

    AllAfrica News: Latest 2010

  • The structures were identified as inhibiting the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum in a screen of the company's 2-million-compound library - a process that took five scientists at Tres Cantos around one year to complete.

    Daily News & Analysis 2010

  • Now, you can't patent the idea of inhibiting enzyme A.

    Slashdot: Science 2009

  • "To see a river as a goddess," he said in an interview, "can lead to a kind of inhibiting of the efforts to clean up the river because one sees it as an all-powerful god who couldn't possibly be polluted."

    Joseph B. Treaster: In Land of Holy Rivers Getting Rid of Pollution May Have Low Priority 2009

  • The cultivation of negative passivity such as inhibiting all thought and making oneself quite passive and open to any influence, is also highly dangerous and should be strictly avoided.

    Within You is the Power Henry Thomas Hamblin

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