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Inhibitory vs Suppressing - What's the difference?

inhibitory | suppressing |

As an adjective inhibitory

is that inhibits.

As a verb suppressing is

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As a noun suppressing is

the act by which something is suppressed; a suppression.

inhibitory

English

Adjective

(head)
  • that inhibits
    • the inhibitory action of the pneumogastric on the respiratory center
  • * Lamb
    • I would not have you consider these criticisms as inhibitory .
  • of, or relating to an inhibitor

    • Synonyms

    * inhibitive

    Derived terms

    * inhibitory fibre * inhibitory nerve * inhibitory obsession * inhibitory postsynaptic current * inhibitory postsynaptic potential * inhibitory synapse * inhibitory-motor

    suppressing

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Gary Younge)
    • , 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.