Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To restrain; check; hinder.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To restrain.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To
restrain .
Etymologies
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Latin cohibitus, past participle of cohibere to confine; co- + habere to hold.
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