搜尋結果
inhibit
- IPA[inˈhibət]
美式
- hinder, restrain, or prevent (an action or process);prevent or prohibit (someone) from doing something
verb: inhibit, 3rd person present: inhibits, gerund or present participle: inhibiting, past tense: inhibited, past participle: inhibited
- 釋義
動詞
- 1. hinder, restrain, or prevent (an action or process) cold inhibits plant growth 同義詞 反義詞
- ▪ prevent or prohibit (someone) from doing something the earnings rule inhibited some retired people from working
- ▪ (chiefly of a drug or other substance) slow down or prevent (a process, reaction, or function) or reduce the activity of (an enzyme or other agent).
- 2. make (someone) self-conscious and unable to act in a relaxed and natural way his mother's strictures would always inhibit him
- 3. (in ecclesiastical law) forbid (a member of the clergy) to exercise clerical functions.