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inhibiting
verb as in restrict, prevent
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Example Sentences
The high price of the Tesla Model S—about $60,000—is inhibiting more widespread adoption.
Uncertainty over the TPC's future is inhibiting new investment.
This could be sexually inhibiting for her, especially in a repressive time when all young women were supposed to be virgins.
It was a week of strained tenseness; a certain electricity seemed at hand in the atmosphere, inhibiting speech.
The only probable explanation is that the inhibiting circumstance was the established belief in the assumption.
The nervous shock had thrown the stomach out of order, inhibiting the secretion of gastric juice.
Certain media possess the power of inhibiting the growth of a greater or less number of species.
It was that which had held me silent in my chair, inhibiting all will to rise and begin the next needful step.
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On this page you'll find 52 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to inhibiting, such as: hinder, obstruct, discourage, prohibit, forbid, and suppress.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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