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JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

制せい止し

seishi

to stop, to restrain

人の行動を止めるときに使う。 Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. 警察けいさつは群衆ぐんしゅうを制止せいしした。

    The police held back the crowd.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 警察けいさつは群衆ぐんしゅうを制止せいしするのに躍起やっきになっている。

    The police are going all out just to hold back the crowd.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. また、一部いちぶの地域ちいきでは制止せいしすべき警官けいかんが暴動ぼうどうを黙認もくにんした。

    Also, in some regions, police officers who should have stopped riots tolerated the riots.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 制止

  • 制system; lawOnセイ
  • 止stop; haltOnシKunとまる・とめる・とどめる

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