inhibiting
阻害する
解説 Definition
inhibiting は inhibit（阻害する、抑制する）の現在分詞です。進行中の動作として「阻害している」と述べたり、名詞を修飾して「阻害する」という働きを表したりします。
Inhibiting is the present participle of inhibit and describes an action or influence that is limiting, slowing, or preventing a process, activity, or behavior from developing or continuing freely.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
原形 inhibit「抑制する」に -ing をそのまま加えた現在分詞で、語末の t は重ねない。発音は inhibit /ɪnˈhɪbɪt/ に /ɪŋ/ が続く形。be inhibiting growth「成長を阻害している」や an inhibiting factor「阻害要因」のように、進行や抑制する働きを表す。
Start with the base verb inhibit, meaning “to restrain or hinder,” and add -ing directly: inhibit becomes inhibiting, without doubling the final t. Its pronunciation keeps the full base, /ɪnˈhɪbɪt/, followed by /ɪŋ/. Picture something holding a process back: cold weather is inhibiting plant growth, or excessive rules are inhibiting creativity. The form often follows be to describe an ongoing effect, but it can also modify a noun, as in an inhibiting factor.
例文
The cold weather is inhibiting plant growth.
寒い天候が植物の成長を阻害しています。
Too many rules are inhibiting creative work.
規則が多すぎて創造的な仕事が妨げられています。
Researchers studied a chemical that was inhibiting the reaction.
研究者たちは、その反応を阻害している化学物質を調べました。
inhibiting の類義語・関連語
inhibiting の語源・成り立ち Etymology
ラテン語の接頭辞「in-（中に）」と語根「habere（持つ）」に由来します。「中に押し留める」が転じ、動きや進行を「妨げる・阻害する」という意味に発展しました。同じ語根を持つ単語に、禁止するprohibitや住みつくinhabitがあります。
Inhibit came through Latin inhibere, formed from in-, meaning “in or upon,” and habere, “to hold.” The underlying image is of holding something in or restraining it, which developed into the modern sense of hindering an action, process, or response. Inhibiting is the present-participle form, made by adding -ing directly to inhibit. Related Latin formations include prohibit and inhabit, though their meanings developed differently.
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