Both Uses
inhibit
in
Travels with Charley
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- The grieving sky turned the little water to a dangerous metal and then the wind got up—not the gusty, rabbity wind of the seacoasts I know but a great bursting sweep of wind with nothing to inhibit it for a thousand miles in any direction.†
Part 3 *inhibit = limit or prevent
- Against the descending sun the battlements were dark and clean-lined, while to the east, where the uninhibited light poured slantwise, the strange landscape shouted with color.†
Part 3 *uninhibited = acting naturally without being overly self-consciousstandard 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.
Definitions:
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(1)
(inhibit as in: inhibited the growth of...) to limit the activity of someone or something
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(2)
(inhibited as in: she is shy and inhibited) unable to act naturally due to being overly self-conscious
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)