Word Meanings - COHIBIT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To restrain. Bailey.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COHIBIT)

• Check Curb
• restrain
• stop
• stay
• repress
• hinder
• impede
• inhibit
• cohibit
• bridle
• control
• obstruct
• Curb Restrain
• hold
• check
• moderate
• Withhold
• Retain
• keep
• refuse
• stint
• forbear
• detain

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of COHIBIT)

• Loose
• liberate
• instigate
• accelerate
• license
• indulge
• allow
• abet
• Neglect
• abandon
• berate
• free
• mismanage
• misconduct
• Grant
• afford
• yield
• concede
• acquiesce

Related words: (words related to COHIBIT)

• CHECKWORK
  Anything made so as to form alternate squares lke those of a checkerboard.
• STINTLESS
  Without stint or restraint. The stintlesstears of old Heraclitus. Marston.
• INHIBITORY
  Of or pertaining to, or producing, inhibition; consisting in inhibition; tending or serving to inhibit; as, the inhibitory action of the pneumogastric on the respiratory center. I would not have you consider these criticisms as inhibitory. Lamb.
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• MISMANAGER
  One who manages ill.
• OBSTRUCTIVE
  An obstructive person or thing.
• ALLOWEDLY
  By allowance; admittedly. Shenstone.
• CONTROLLABLENESS
  Capability of being controlled.
• ALLOW
  allocare to admit as proved, to place, use; confused with OF. aloer, fr. L. allaudare to extol; ad + laudare to praise. See Local, and cf. 1. To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction. Ye allow the deeds of your fathers. Luke xi. 48. We commend
• CHECKREIN
  1. A short rein looped over the check hook to prevent a horse from lowering his head; -- called also a bearing rein. 2. A branch rein connecting the driving rein of one horse of a span or pair with the bit of the other horse.
• RETAINMENT
  The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
• ALLOWER
  1. An approver or abettor. 2. One who allows or permits.
• REPRESSIBLE
  Capable of being repressed.
• YIELDABLE
  Disposed to yield or comply. -- Yield"a*ble*ness, n. Bp. Hall.
• INDULGEMENT
  Indulgence. Wood.
• YIELDANCE
  1. The act of producing; yield; as, the yieldance of the earth. Bp. Hall. 2. The act of yielding; concession. South.
• INHIBITION
  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,
• CONTROLLABILITY
  Capability of being controlled; controllableness.
• ACQUIESCENTLY
  In an acquiescent manner.
• DETAINMENT
  Detention. Blackstone.
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
• HALLOW
  To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed
• THRYFALLOW
  To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
• SALLOWISH
  Somewhat sallow. Dickens.
• WALLOWER
  A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.
• YIELD
  pay, give, restore, make an offering; akin to OFries. jelda, OS. geldan, D. gelden to cost, to be worth, G. gelten, OHG. geltan to pay, restore, make an offering, be worth, Icel. gjalda to pay, give up, Dan. gielde to be worth, Sw. gälla to be
• IMMIGRANT
  One who immigrates; one who comes to a country for the purpose of permanent residence; -- correlative of emigrant. Syn. -- See Emigrant.
• MALLOWWORT
  Any plant of the order Malvaceæ.
• PROTUBERATE
  To swell, or be prominent, beyond the adjacent surface; to bulge out. S. Sharp.
• SWALLOWFISH
  The European sapphirine gurnard . It has large pectoral fins.
• TALLOW-FACED
  Having a sickly complexion; pale. Burton.