Illustration: Outside a small neighborhood garden shed, a gardener kneels beside a bundle of bamboo stakes. Cord passes around the bundle in two places, and she pulls the ends of the final knot tight with both hands.

JLPT N3verbLevel estimated by Bebop

縛しばる

shibaru

to tie, to bind

Example sentences

どろぼうは手足てあしを縛しばられた。
The thief was bound hand and foot.
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彼かれはその小包こづつみを縛しばった。
He tied the parcel up.
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本ほんは一ひとまとめにしっかり縛しばってあった。
The books were tied up in a bundle.
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Kanji in 縛

縛truss; arrestOnバクKunしばる

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