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English
Etymology
From Latin inhibitus, perfect passive participle of inhibeō (“I hold in, check, restrain”), from in (“in, at, on”), + habeō (“I have, hold, keep”).
Pronunciation
Verb
inhibit (third-person singular simple present inhibits, present participle inhibiting, simple past and past participle inhibited)
- (transitive) To hold in or hold back; to keep in check; restrain.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:hinder
inhibit someone's freedom
inhibit someone's education
- (Philippines) To recuse.
Derived terms
Translations
to hold in or hold back; to restrain
- Bulgarian: задържам (bg) (zadǎržam), препятствам (bg) (prepjatstvam)
- Catalan: inhibir (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 抑制 (zh) (yìzhì)
- Czech: potlačit
- Dutch: remmen (nl)
- Esperanto: inhibicii
- Finnish: rajoittaa (fi), estää (fi)
- French: inhiber (fr)
- Galician: inhibir
- German: hemmen (de), hindern (de), sperren (de), verhindern (de)
- Greek: αναχαιτίζω (el) (anachaitízo), αναστέλλω (el) (anastéllo)
- Hindi: बाधा डालना (bādhā ḍālnā), रोकना (hi) (roknā)
- Hungarian: gátol (hu), akadályoz (hu)
- Irish: urchoill
- Italian: inibire (it)
- Japanese: 抑制する (ja) (よくせいする, yokusei-suru) 阻止する (ja) (そしする, soshi-suru) 制止する (ja) (せいしする, seishi-isuru), 抑止する (ja) (よくしする, yokushi-suru)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: asteng kirin (ku)
- Maori: tautāwhi, tāmoe
- Occitan: inibir, enebir (oc)
- Portuguese: inibir (pt)
- Romanian: inhiba (ro)
- Russian: подавля́ть (ru) impf (podavljátʹ), подави́ть (ru) pf (podavítʹ), сде́рживать (ru) impf (sdérživatʹ), сдержа́ть (ru) pf (sderžátʹ), угнета́ть (ru) impf (ugnetátʹ), препя́тствовать (ru) impf (prepjátstvovatʹ), воспрепя́тствовать (ru) pf (vosprepjátstvovatʹ), меша́ть (ru) impf (mešátʹ), помеша́ть (ru) pf (pomešátʹ)
- Spanish: inhibir (es), frustrar (es), coartar (es)
- Swedish: hämma (sv), avstyra (sv), förhindra (sv)
- Tagalog: sansalain
- Turkish: engellemek (tr), kısıtlamak (tr), önlemek (tr), tutmak (tr)
- Ukrainian: перешкоджати (pereškodžaty)
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Catalan
Etymology
From Latin inhibitus, perfect passive participle of inhibeō (“I hold in, check, restrain”), from in (“in, at, on”), + habeō (“I have, hold, keep”).
Pronunciation
Participle
inhibit (feminine inhibida, masculine plural inhibits, feminine plural inhibides)
- past participle of inhibir