inhibit

In a sentence

Six example sentences with inhibit, each labelled with its topic.

• The drug works by inhibiting the enzyme that lets the bacteria build a wall around itself.

  Medicine

• Fear of a bad grade can inhibit the very curiosity that makes a student ask the useful question.

  Psychology

• A throttling rule inhibits any script that fires more than sixty requests a second at the login endpoint.

  Technology

• Too much salt will inhibit the yeast, so the dough sits sullen in the bowl instead of doubling.

  Cooking

• High tariffs on machinery inhibit investment, since a factory that costs a third more takes years longer to pay back.

  Economics

• A thin coat of zinc inhibits rust on the steel, sacrificing itself before the iron underneath can corrode.

  Science

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More Academic words

• briefs
• superficial
• attain
• formatting
• rationality
• unifying
• comprise
• elicit
• thereby
• maximizing
• degrade
• stabilized