Illustration: As wind drives rain along a town street, a shopkeeper pulls the final heavy wooden shutter across the entrance of a small household-goods shop. Only a narrow gap remains, through which the storm and empty street are visible.

JLPT N1verbLevel estimated by Bebop

閉とざす

tozasu

to shut, to close

Example sentences

七時半しちじはんに私わたしたちもドアを閉とざしました。
At seven-thirty, we too closed the door behind us.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
彼女かのじょは見解けんかいの異ことなる人々ひとびとにも心こころを閉とざさない。
She is open to people who have a different point of view.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
夫おっとが戸とを開あけようとしても堅かたく閉とざされて開ひらかない。
The husband tried to open the door, but it refused to open, being firmly closed.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 閉

閉closed; shutOnヘイKunとじる・とざす・しめる

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