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1. Arrest or restraint of a process.
2. <psychology> The interference with or prevention of a behavioural or verbal response even though the stimulus for that response is present; in psychoanalysis the unconscious restraining of an instinctual process.
Origin: L. Inhibere = to restrain, habere = to hold
(04 Jul 1999)
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