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

5 sentences
  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.

  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.

Translations

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