Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
INHIBIT
inhibit
(verb) prohibit, forbid, or prevent from doing something; “Contact between the young was inhibited by strict social customs”
inhibit
(verb) make (someone) self-conscious and as a result unable to act naturally; “his father’s cold and distant demeanor inhibited him emotionally”
inhibit, bottle up, suppress
(verb) consciously restrain from showing; of emotions, desires, impulses, or behavior; “suppress a smile”; “he let his anger bottle up until he exploded”
inhibit
(verb) limit, block, or decrease the action or function of; “inhibit the action of the enzyme”; “inhibit the rate of a chemical reaction”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
inhibit (third-person singular simple present inhibits, present participle inhibiting, simple past and past participle inhibited)
(transitive) To hold in or hold back; to keep in check; restrain.
Synonym: Thesaurus:hinder
(Philippines) To recuse.
Source: Wiktionary
In*hib"it, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Inhibited; p. pr. & vb. n. Inhibiting.] Etym: [L. inhibitus, p. p. of inhibere; pref. in- in + habere to have, hold. See Habit.]
1. To check; to hold back; to restrain; to hinder. Their motions also are excited or inhibited . . . by the objects without them. Bentley.
2. To forbid; to prohibit; to interdict. All men were inhibited, by proclamation, at the dissolution, so much as to mention a Parliament. Clarendon. Burial may not be inhibited or denied to any one. Ayliffe.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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NURSE
(verb) treat carefully; “He nursed his injured back by lying in bed several hours every afternoon”; “He nursed the flowers in his garden and fertilized them regularly”
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