Inhibit is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for INHIBIT in dictionary:

VERB:
• to restrain or hold back
• hinder, restrain, or prevent (an action or process)
• prevent or prohibit (someone) from doing something
• (of a substance) slow down or prevent (a process, reaction, or function) or reduce the activity of (an enzyme or other agent).
• make (someone) self-conscious and unable to act in a relaxed and natural way
• (in ecclesiastical law) forbid (a member of the clergy) to exercise clerical functions.
• restrain (an impulse or desire)
• To check; to hold back; to restrain; to hinder.
• To forbid; to prohibit; to interdict.
• to put down by force or authority
• limit the range or extent of
• limit, block, or decrease the action or function of
• control and refrain from showing; of emotions, desires, impulses, or behavior

Words related to INHIBIT

inhibitable18 inhibited15 inhibiting16 inhibitive18 inhibits13

Words that contain INHIBIT

inhibits13 inhibited15 inhibiter14 inhibitor14 disinhibit16 inhibiters15 inhibiting16 inhibition15 inhibitive18 inhibitors15 inhibitory18 disinhibits17 inhibitable18 inhibitedly20 inhibitions16 uninhibited17 disinhibited19 disinhibitor18 disinhibiting20 disinhibition19 disinhibitory22 subinhibitory23 uninhibitedly22 vasoinhibitor21 disinhibitors19 disinhibitions20 vasoinhibitors22 vasoinhibitory25 uninhibitedness21 uninhibitednesses23

How to use INHIBIT in a sentence

• Nothing else is more powerful than religious conviction and sentiment to reinforce good conduct and to inhibit wrong action.
• If they wish to inhibit such importation, they may do so.
• The lines give definiteness and direction to the attention, and as definitely inhibit incompatible attitudes.
• It becomes a part of Scientific Management to inhibit all inattention and wrong habits, and to concentrate upon the things desired.
• He could not inhibit thought, reflection, surges of emotion generated mysteriously within himself.
• When he speaks, contradictory ideas rarely arise in the mind to inhibit the action he suggests.
• A ball flashing past the human eye causes the lids to close unconsciously, and it is not always possible to inhibit this instinctive mechanical act by the exercise of the will.
• Inevitably, with such approaches comes a questioning of religious doctrines that inhibit association and understanding.
• He must not seek to inhibit any portion of his impulse.
• Most of the states on the Continent had surrounded themselves as with walls of brass, to inhibit intercourse with other states.
• They are generally due to the disturbing influence of morphological groupings or to special psychological reasons which inhibit the normal progress of the phonetic drift.
• A creative concept which could survive and inhibit the predatory concept must rest on such elements of creative force as are now absent from our industrial institution.
• It is possible to inhibit by this means, because lack of use of connections in the nervous system results in atrophy.
• Besides these positive connections, a child in learning must inhibit other connections which are incorrect, and these must often outnumber the correct ones.
• The shock of experience can indeed correct, disappoint, or inhibit rational expectation, but it cannot take its place.
• Here, too, we found that quickly succeeding equal or very similar impressions have a tendency to inhibit each other or to fuse with each other.
• Psychological laboratory experiments have shown in many different directions that simultaneous independent activities always disturb and inhibit one another.
• Some internal secretions stimulate, others inhibit, and the same secretions may under different conditions do either.
• Beneath certain trees, as the Norway maple, grass will not grow, and it has been shown that the tree produces substances which inhibit the growth of grass.

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