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cohibit

cohibit verb: to restrain; to inhibit.

Verb

cohibit (third-person singular simple present cohibits, present participle cohibiting, simple past and past participle cohibited)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To restrain; to inhibit.
    • the proper Cure to cohibit so pernicious a Symptom1678, J. S., A Short Compendium of Chirurgery

cohibit meaning in Urdu

cohibit in Urdu

پابندی لگانا, روکنا

Forms of cohibit

third-person singular presentcohibits
present participlecohibiting
past participlecohibited
pastcohibited

Origin of cohibit

From Latin cohibitus, past participle of cohibere (“to confine”), from co- + habere (“to hold”). Compare inhibit.

Words that rhyme with cohibit

Questions about cohibit

What does cohibit mean?
Cohibit means to restrain; to inhibit.
What is cohibit in Urdu?
Cohibit in Urdu is پابندی لگانا, روکنا. See Cohibit meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is cohibit?
Cohibit is a verb.
What is the past tense of cohibit?
The past tense of cohibit is cohibited.

Words near cohibit in the dictionary

  1. cohesivity
  2. cohesure
  3. Cohi Noor
  4. cohibin
  5. cohibins
  6. cohibit
  7. cohibited
  8. cohibiting
  9. cohibition
  10. cohibits
  11. Cohick

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cohibit (page history and authors); cohibit (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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