Meaning

3 senses
  1. One who, or that which, inhibits.

    I found daily meditation to be a useful inhibitor of negative thoughts.

  2. Any substance capable of stopping or slowing a specific chemical reaction.

    Inhibitor

    ингиби́торingibítor

  3. Any substance capable of stopping or slowing a specific biological process.

More definitions
  • a substance that retards or stops an activity

Examples

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  1. The inhibitors broke, thus the staff had to evacuate.

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  2. Antibiotics are commonly enzymatic inhibitors.

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  3. Having these STD pamphlets strewn here on the coffee table sure is an inhibitor.

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  4. There's an inhibitor in your brains that makes you not question why you know Tagalog that you never learned from school.

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  5. There's an inhibitor in your brains that makes you think that I'm a normal human being, so I can walk amongst people.

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Translations

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substance slowing a reaction:
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