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Meanings of inhibitory in English

Restrictive of action.

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Examples for "repressive"
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Perhaps Director Moth was correct; repressive disasters had happened at other institutions.
Genellan: planetfall
2
To really hide from, say, a repressive government, you need unbreakable encryption.
Wired
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The repressive social restraints of the old social order are somewhat removed.
Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic
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Would conservatives attack the president for legitimizing the repressive regime's legal system?
Somewhere inside
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For protest policing under neoliberalism does not simply entail more repressive behaviour.
The Guardian
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She thought I was either repressing or not remembering the true events.
Climbing Magazine
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He feared the results of the emotion she was repressing so rigidly.
The Sheik: A Novel
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Both the socialists and their successors would eradicate exploitation by repressing it.
Creative Impulse in Industry: A Proposition for Educators
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Is my anger due to the cruelty I am repressing in myself?
A Dominie in Doubt
5
A curate, walking down repressing bulges and levelling up concavities, ordained order.
The Fortunate Youth
Usage of inhibitory in English
1
Large differences were observed in inhibitory effects of by-products between different species.
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Automatic inhibitory control processes prevent such response tendencies from interfering with behaviour.
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The inhibitory time course of electrical acupuncture were prolonged by stimulating RN.
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In fact, ALA has a strong inhibitory effect on omega-6 metabolic pathway.
Pubmed
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We used a new algorithm to detect and characterize the inhibitory reflex.
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The stimulatory effect was protein synthesis-dependent, whereas the inhibitory effect was not.
Pubmed
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Combinations with linezolid had the greatest inhibitory effect on mean LF levels.
Pubmed
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In conclusion, ICI 118630 had no direct inhibitory effect on human testes.
Pubmed
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Also, the N-terminus of merlin may be important for its inhibitory effect.
Pubmed
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JS-K thus represents a promising platform for novel growth inhibitory analog synthesis.
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Only minimal inhibitory effects were seen on PPAR beta and PPAR gamma.
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A profound growth-inhibitory effect of danazol on human endometrium was previously suggested.
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This increase correlated with the inhibitory effect of IFNgamma on ECFC proliferation.
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The inhibitory effect of the drugs on cell proliferation was not significant.
Pubmed
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Overexpression of Snapin fully rescued this inhibitory effect in the mutant cells.
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These inhibitory effects may partially contribute to anti-blood stagnancy activity of rhubarb.
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