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Suppressing vs Inhibiting - What's the difference?

suppressing | inhibiting |

As verbs the difference between suppressing and inhibiting

is that suppressing is while inhibiting is .

As a noun suppressing

is the act by which something is suppressed; a suppression.

suppressing

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    • , volume=188, issue=26, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution , passage=The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is suppressed; a suppression.

    • inhibiting

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    Verb

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