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Definitionadj. held back or restrained or prevented
Last update: August 26, 2015
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The student was too inhibited to laugh. [Please select]
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This result created a great sensation, and proved that Transatlantic electric wave telegraphy was quite feasible and not inhibited by distance, or by the earth's curvature even over an arc of a great circle 3000 m. [Please select]
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There was authority in his tone that angered Ellen, and something else which inhibited her anger. [Please select]
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She clung there, her body all held rigid, as if some extraordinary strength or inspiration or joy had suddenly inhibited weakness. [Please select]
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Thus, in the example given above, the mother observes correctly that defæcation is inhibited, and produces crying and resistance. [Please select]
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Thus the mother of the child in whom defæcation is inhibited by negativism may have made further observations. [Please select]
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The most unthinkable thing was that one could find one's self in a position in which action seemed inhibited. [Please select]
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He was a man, capable of detachment, permitted by convention to practise detachment, by gift of, nature not inhibited from detachment. [Please select]
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Each organ or tissue is stimulated or inhibited according to its use or hindrance in the physical struggle for existence. [Please select]
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Since he may not act, even those beginnings of action which make the basis of emotion are inhibited in him. [Please select]
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Let us suspend, by any means, the activity of the encephalic mass, by arresting the circulation of the blood for example, and the psychic function is at once inhibited. [Please select]
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