Crossword-Solution: INHIBITION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Inhibition | n. | The act of inhibiting, or the state of being inhibited; restraint; prohibition; embargo. |
| Inhibition | n. | A stopping or checking of an already present action; a restraining of the function of an organ, or an agent, as a digestive fluid or ferment, etc.; as, the inhibition of the respiratory center by the pneumogastric nerve; the inhibition of reflexes, etc. |
| Inhibition | n. | A writ from a higher court forbidding an inferior judge from further proceedings in a cause before; esp., a writ issuing from a higher ecclesiastical court to an inferior one, on appeal. |
We have 17 clues for the answer “INHIBITION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| the quality of being inhibited | 1 answer |
| censorship | 18 answers |
| BOWDLERIZATION | 18 answers |
| squashing | 18 answers |
| containment | 18 answers |
| clampdown | 18 answers |
| subdual | 21 answers |
| forbidden fruit | 22 answers |
| expurgation | 22 answers |
| Suppression | 23 answers |
| repression | 26 answers |
| Wraps | 32 answers |
| editing | 32 answers |
| constraint | 62 answers |
| intervention | 65 answers |
| Overthrow | 75 answers |
| Bar | 109 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAEER
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greedy person
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Sentences with INHIBITION (5)
And, when done, the cocktails reared a wall of inhibition in my brain between the day's work done and the rest of the day of fun to come.
The devil-fish, it seems, were growing scarce upon the reef; it was judged fit to interpose what we should call a close season; for that end, in Polynesia, a tapu (vulgarly spelt ‘taboo’) has to be declared, and who was to declare it? Taipi might; he ought; it was a chief part of his duty; but would any one regard the inhibition of a Beggar on Horse-back? He might plant palm branches: it did not in the least follow that the spot was sacred.
Few people who have not expressly reflected on the matter realize how constantly this factor of inhibition is upon us, how it contains and moulds us by its restrictive pressure almost as if we were fluids pent within the cavity of a jar.
This is particularly true of blows about the external genital region, or epigastrium, where the solar plexus is an active factor in inhibition.
And this reluctance, this inhibition, every man jealous of his scientific reputation will understand.
Quotes with INHIBITION (3)
When an animal dies, another of the same species may cling to the body, eat the body, or look bored. Bees expel dead bodies from the hive or, if that is impossible, embalm them in honey. Elephants "say" a ritualistic good-bye, and touch their dead before slowly walking away. Corvids often accept the death of a companion without much fuss, but they at times have “funerals,” where scores of birds lament over the corpse of a deceased crow. But it is a bit odd that people should …
The depressed and the suicidal are often lonely and inhibited. Discussions of inhibition in this context usually emphasize fear of rejection.
Thus, an inhibition center developed below what in humans is the temporal lobe, to turn off much of the functioning of the reptilian brain; and an activation center evolved in the pons to turn on the R-complex, but harmlessly, during sleep.