せまる – Vocabulary details

せまる

Verb (5-dan, る, intransitive)

1. to approach; to draw near; to be imminent

Verb (5-dan, る, transitive)

2. to press (someone for something); to urge; to compel

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to be imminent; to be impending; to be pressing; to be urgent

to be bloodcurdling; to be ghastly

to draw near; to approach; to be imminent; to be impending; to be at hand

先せん生せいは彼かれに答こたえをせまった。

The teacher pushed him for an answer.

世せ界かい的てきな危き機きがすぐそこまでせまっている。

A global crisis is at hand.

組くみ合あいは１いち０パーセントの賃ちん上あげをせまっている。

The union is pressing for a ten-percent pay hike.

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