Illustration: During a freeze-dance game in a Japanese community-center room, a child has stopped dead in an exaggerated dance pose, one knee raised and both arms spread. A teacher beside the music player has just pressed its stop button.

ぴたり

pitari

abruptly when stopping

ぴったり is more common; ぴたり often takes と. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

男おとこはぴたりと止とまった。
The man came to a dead stop.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
ぴたりと止とまる
to stop suddenly
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source
話はなし声ごえがぴたりとやんだ。
The voices stopped abruptly.
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