Illustration: Outside a neighborhood greengrocer, a worker catches a produce cart that has begun rolling down a shallow driveway. One hand clamps the handle while one shoe presses firmly against a wheel, bringing the cart to a halt.

JLPT N4verbLevel estimated by Bebop

止とめる

tomeru

to stop, to turn off

Example sentences

彼かれは車くるまを止とめた。
He stopped the car.
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ガスを止とめろ。
Turn off the gas.
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その新聞しんぶんは政府せいふにインフレを止とめるように求もとめた。
The newspaper called for the government to stop inflation.
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Kanji in 止

止stop; haltOnシKunとまる・とめる・とどめる

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