Noun
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the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof)
"they were restrained by a prohibition in their charter"
"a medical inhibition of alcoholic beverages"
"he ignored his parents' forbiddance"
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(physiology) the process whereby nerves can retard or prevent the functioning of an organ or part
"the inhibition of the heart by the vagus nerve"
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the quality of being inhibited
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(psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires