Illustration: On a narrow wooded cycling path after a storm, a fallen tree trunk lies across the entire route between steep banks. A commuter has stopped with the bicycle's front wheel just short of the bark, both brakes squeezed and one foot planted on the ground.

JLPT N1verbLevel estimated by Bebop

阻はばむ

habamu

to hinder, to block

Example sentences

彼かれらは大おおきな川かわに前進ぜんしんを阻はばまれた。
Their progress was stopped by a wide river.
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我々われわれの前進ぜんしんは阻はばまれた。
Our advance was checked.
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行ゆく手てを阻はばんだものは、高たかさ１メートル足たらずの石壁いしかべでした。
The thing blocking my path was a stone wall of less than 1 meter’s height.
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Kanji in 阻

阻thwart; separate fromOnソKunはばむ

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