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inhibitor

noun
/ɪnˈhɪbɪtɚ/US

Etymology

From inhibit + -or.

  1. derived from inhibitus
  2. formed as inhibitor — “inhibit + -or”

Definitions

  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.

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

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Derived

inhibitory, angioinhibitor, carbidopa, cathelin, coinhibitor, isoinhibitor, neuroinhibitor, noninhibitor, ovoinhibitor, proinhibitor, salirasib, sympathoinhibitor, vasoinhibitor, vigabatrin

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for inhibitor. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA