よびとめる – Vocabulary details

よびとめる

Verb (1-dan, transitive)

1. to (call and) stop; to call (someone) to stop; to hail (e.g. a taxi)

呼よび止とめたら、次つぎは何なにを言いえばいいのか分わからない。If I call out to stop them, I don't know what to say next.

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call; invitation

to stop; to turn off; to park; to prevent; to suppress (a cough); to stop (someone from doing something); to dissuade

意い図とせずよびとめてしまった形かたちになる。

It ends up looking like I stopped them unintentionally.

歩あるき出だした二ふた人りを、反はん射しゃ的てきによびとめた。

I reflexively called out to stop the two who had started walking.

荷に物もつを担かついだところで、よびとめる声こえがした。

Just as I was shouldering my luggage, I heard a voice calling out to stop me.

よびとめたら、次つぎは何なにを言いえばいいのか分わからない。

If I call out to stop them, I don't know what to say next.

公こう園えんで一いっ緒しょに遊あそんだ帰かえり道みち、男おとこの人ひとによびとめられたのだ。

On the way home after playing together in the park, I was stopped by a man.

警けい察さつ官かんが私わたしをよびとめた時とき、時じ速そく１２０キロで走はしっていた。

I was driving at 120 kilometers per hour when the police stopped me.

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