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inhibit

English

  1. 🔊 prohibit, forbid, or prevent from doing something
    “Contact between the young was inhibited by strict social customs”
  2. 🔊 make (someone) self-conscious and as a result unable to act naturally
    “his father's cold and distant demeanor inhibited him emotionally”
  3. 🔊 consciously restrain from showing
    “suppress a smile”
  4. 🔊 limit, block, or decrease the action or function of
    “inhibit the action of the enzyme”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 inhibir to inhibit
  2. 🔊 coartar to inhibit, to cramp someone's style

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