v.
 (inhibits, inhibiting, inhibited)
  - hinder, restrain, or prevent (an action or process).
 - make (someone) unable to act in a relaxed and natural way.
 
 
  Derivative
  
    - inhibited adj.
  - inhibitive adj.
 
   
  Etymology
  ME: from L. inhibere ‘hinder’, from in- ‘in’ + habere ‘hold’.