Inhibit: alternatives and connections

To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle.

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To make damp or moist; to make slightly wet.

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The bare end of the nose between the nostrils; -- used esp. of ruminants.

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To press again.

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To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to…

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The joint next above the hock, and near the flank, in the hind leg of the horse and allied animals; the joint corresponding to the knee in man; -- ca…

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To compress the windpipe of (a person or animal) until death results from stoppage of respiration; to choke to death by compressing the throat, as wi…

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To scatter in fight; to put to rout; to defeat.

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To disarrange; to interfere with; to disturb; to disorder; to unsettle; to break up.

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To break up the harmonious progress of; to throw into disorder or confusion; as, the emperor disconcerted the plans of his enemy.

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of Forbid

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To shut up or out; to preclude; to stop; to prevent; to bar; to exclude.

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To take beforehand, or in advance; to anticipate.

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Of or belonging to that part or end which is in the rear, or which follows; as, the hinder part of a wagon; the hinder parts of a horse.

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To hinder; to stop in progress; to obstruct; as, to impede the advance of troops.

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To care; to desire.

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To put a barrier before; hence, to shut out; to hinder; to stop; to impede.

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To go before; to precede; hence, to go before as a guide; to direct.

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To draw back again; to hold back from acting, proceeding, or advancing, either by physical or moral force, or by any interposing obstacle; to repress…

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To make incapable of harmony, or of harmonious action; to put out of tune.

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To set up; to put upright.

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The act of inhibiting, or the state of being inhibited; restraint; prohibition; embargo.

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The act of inhibiting, or the state of being inhibited; restraint; prohibition; embargo.

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That which causes inhibitory action; esp., an inhibitory nerve.

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That which causes inhibitory action; esp., an inhibitory nerve.

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Of or pertaining to, or producing, inhibition; consisting in inhibition; tending or serving to inhibit; as, the inhibitory action of the pneumogastri…

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Of or pertaining to, or producing, inhibition; consisting in inhibition; tending or serving to inhibit; as, the inhibitory action of the pneumogastri…

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To overpower and crush; to subdue; to put down; to quell.

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