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inhibit
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inhibit as in:  inhibited the growth of...

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    In their culture, contact between the young was inhibited by strict social customs.
    inhibited = limited
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    There were terpenes, which plants spread to poison the soil around them and inhibit competitors; alkaloids, which made them unpalatable to insects and predators (and children); and pheromones, used for communication.  (source)
    inhibit = keep from developing or limit
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    The outside of the suit was covered with an elaborate exoskeleton, a network of artificial tendons and joints that could both sense and inhibit my movements.  (source)
    inhibit = limit
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    I've learned that the very traits that enabled my survival during childhood inhibit my success as an adult.  (source)
    inhibit = work against
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    At night, by some chemical process unknown to me but obviously inhibited by sunlight, the predatory algae turned highly acidic and the ponds became vats of acid that digested the fish.  (source)
    inhibited = limited
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    The toxin does the deed insidiously, indirectly, by inhibiting an enzyme essential to glycoprotein metabolism.  (source)
    inhibiting = limiting or restraining
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    Inside that confluence of multifaceted inhibitors," she sighed, "what is freedom really?"†  (source)
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    But to hear around them is too much; it inhibits action.†  (source)
    inhibits = limits or prevents
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    In retrospect she saw that her sudden lack of inhibition had intoxicated her more than any of the men had.  (source)
    inhibition = restraint
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    Indeed, it would be easier to handle an academic colleague in a friendly debate than someone like Advokat Giannini, who had no inhibitions and was bent on distorting his words.  (source)
    inhibitions = self-restraint
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tions", converts a verb into a plural noun that denotes results of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in actions, illustrations, and observations.
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    Dr. Sherman ordered an intravenous saline drip and an injection of the labor inhibitor Brethine.†  (source)
    inhibitor = someone or something that limits activity
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    The question flung itself in-voluntarily over Jane Withersteen's inhibitive habit of faith without question.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.
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    THROUGH learning at my later date things I hadn't known, or had escaped or possibly feared realizing, about my parents—and myself—I glimpse our whole family life as if it were freed of that clock time which spaces us apart so inhibitingly, divides young and old, keeps our living through the same experiences at separate distances.†  (source)
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inhibited as in:  she is shy and inhibited

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She's personable and funny with her friends, but she tends to be inhibited with strangers.
inhibited = unable to act naturally due to being overly self-conscious
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    She is shy and inhibited with strangers.
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    Interaction between the male species and the female species was varied and intense and highly unpredictable. There was more touching than I thought there would be. Some students had no inhibitions whatsoever.  (source)
    inhibitions = limitations in actions due to being self-conscious
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    A side effect of the sleep syrup is that it makes people less inhibited, like white liquor, and I know I have to control my tongue.  (source)
    inhibited = limited in action due to self-consciousness
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    Maraa Isabel knows he wants her to say she loves him, but she can't; she has always been painfully shy. She feels inhibited in the Internet store.  (source)
    inhibited = unable to act naturally due to being overly self-conscious
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    Why, Good Lord, Maud, I could talk about neuroses and psychoses and inhibitions and repressions and complexes just as well as any damn specialist, if I got paid for it, if I was in the city and had the nerve to charge the fees that those fellows do.  (source)
    inhibitions = inabilities to act naturally due to being overly self-conscious
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tions", converts a verb into a plural noun that denotes results of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in actions, illustrations, and observations.
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    It was an incredible performance, completely uninhibited.  (source)
    uninhibited = done naturally without being self-conscious
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in uninhibited means not and reverses the meaning of inhibited. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    It was like a child's game that had lost all inhibition in adult hands.  (source)
    inhibition = limitation or restraint
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    I would maintain this is not from trepidation on the writer's part (it's hard to find any evidence of Durrell being inhibited about much of anything) but from his sense that in novels so overheated by passion, the sexiest thing he can do is show everything but the lovemaking itself.  (source)
    inhibited = limited in action due to embarrassment or self-consciousness
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    The lack of oxygen was affecting his inhibitions.†  (source)
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    Mariam watched them cantering uninhibited down the street, sometimes with a man, sometimes alone, sometimes with rosy-cheeked children who wore shiny shoes and watches with leather bands, who walked bicycles with high-rise handlebars and gold-colored spokes-unlike the children in Deh-Mazang, who bore sand-fly scars on their cheeks and rolled old bicycle tires with sticks.†  (source)
    uninhibited = acting naturally without being overly self-conscious
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    The histories revealed in each a severe degree of sexual inhibition.  (source)
    inhibition = limitation of activity
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    As the president listened in amazement, his usually shy and sexually inhibited wife told him precisely what she wanted from him in bed.  (source)
    inhibited = limited in action due to embarrassment or self-consciousness
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    He had no inhibitions, and whatever ones he discovered I had he'd pry away from me like little treasures.†  (source)
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