Inhibit /(?)/

imp. & p. p. Inhibited; p. pr. & vb. n. Inhibiting

1. To check; to hold back; to restrain; to hinder.

   Their motions also are excited or inhibited . . . by the objects without them.

2. To forbid; to prohibit; to interdict.

   All men were inhibited, by proclamation, at the dissolution, so much as to mention a Parliament.

   Burial may not be inhibited or denied to any one.

3. To cause the rate of (a chemical or biochemical reaction) to proceed slower, or to halt; as, vitamin C inhibits oxidation; penicillins inhibit bacterial cell wall synthesis. (Chem., Biochem.)
4. To restrain (a behavior) by a mechanism involving conscious or unconscious motivations.