For pronunciation and definitions of <span class="searchmatch">とど</span><span class="searchmatch">め</span><span class="searchmatch">を</span><span class="searchmatch">刺す</span> – see the following entry. (This term, <span class="searchmatch">とど</span><span class="searchmatch">め</span><span class="searchmatch">を</span><span class="searchmatch">刺す</span>, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)...
(“finishing blow”) + <span class="searchmatch">を</span> + <span class="searchmatch">刺す</span> (“to stab”). 止(<span class="searchmatch">とど</span>)<span class="searchmatch">め</span><span class="searchmatch">を</span>刺(さ)す • (todome o sasu) godan (stem 止(<span class="searchmatch">とど</span>)<span class="searchmatch">め</span><span class="searchmatch">を</span>刺(さ)し (todome o sashi), past 止(<span class="searchmatch">とど</span>)<span class="searchmatch">め</span><span class="searchmatch">を</span>刺(さ)した (todome o sashita))...
sashita)) (idiomatic, figurative) to give a warning, to remind a person of Conjugation of "釘<span class="searchmatch">を</span><span class="searchmatch">刺す</span>" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs) 止(<span class="searchmatch">とど</span>)<span class="searchmatch">め</span><span class="searchmatch">を</span>刺(さ)す (todome o sasu)...
For pronunciation and definitions of <span class="searchmatch">とど</span><span class="searchmatch">め</span><span class="searchmatch">を</span>さす – see the following entry. (This term, <span class="searchmatch">とど</span><span class="searchmatch">め</span><span class="searchmatch">を</span>さす (todomeosasu), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)...