Illustration: On a Japanese beach, a child has just finished an elaborate sandcastle when a broad incoming wave advances to within a hand’s breadth of its outer wall. The wet leading edge curves around the little moat, with more water swelling immediately behind it.

JLPT N2verbLevel estimated by Bebop

迫せまる

semaru

to approach, to draw near

Example sentences

試験しけんが目前もくぜんに迫せまった。
The examination is near at hand.
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約束やくそくの日ひが迫せまっている。
The appointed day is close at hand.
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壁かべが迫せまってくる。
The walls close in on me.
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Kanji in 迫

迫urge; forceOnハクKunせまる

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