止める

• (Tokyo) とめる (Heiban – )^[1]
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止(と)める • (tomeru) transitive ichidan (stem 止(と)め (tome), past 止(と)めた (tometa))

1. to stop

   車(くるま)を止(と)める

   kuruma o tomeru

   to stop one's car

   攻撃(こうげき)を止(と)めない

   kōgeki o tomenai

   to not stop one's attacks

   自動(じどう)更新(こうしん)を止(と)める

   jidō kōshin o tomeru

   to stop an update

2. to forbid, to hinder

   外出(がいしゅつ)を止(と)める

   gaishutsu o tomeru

   to forbid to go out

3. to focus on
4. to bear in mind
5. to set in place
6. to park
7. (calligraphy) to write as a thrown stroke to the bottom right (㇔)

   Coordinate term: 払う

• (antonym(s) of “stop”): 動(うご)かす (ugokasu, “move”)
• (antonym(s) of “forbid”): 許(ゆる)す (yurusu, “allow”)

From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *yamu. Cognate with Okinawan 止みゆん (やみゆん, yamiyun).

• (Tokyo) やめる (Heiban – )^[1]
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止(や)める • (yameru) transitive ichidan (stem 止(や)め (yame), past 止(や)めた (yameta))

1. to stop, to terminate, to cease, to discontinue, to quit

   タバコを止(や)めるのは大変(たいへん)です。

   Tabako o yameru no wa taihen desu.

   Quitting smoking is difficult.

   やめろ。／やめてください。

   Yamero.／ Yamete kudasai.

   Stop it. (command) / Stop it. (command, polite)

   仕事(しごと)を辞(や)める

   shigoto o yameru

   to quit one's job

2. to abolish, to do away with

• Usually written in hiragana, as やめる.
• The sense "to quit a job" uses the homonym 辞める.

• (terminate): 打(う)ち切(き)る (uchikiru)

• (antonym(s) of “terminate”): 続(つづ)ける (tsuzukeru, “continue”); 全(まっと)うする (mattō suru, “complete”)
• (antonym(s) of “abolish”): 作(つく)る (tsukuru), 設(もう)ける (mōkeru) (establish)

• (Tokyo) とどめる (Nakadaka – )^[1]
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止(とど)める • (todomeru) transitive ichidan (stem 止(とど)め (todome), past 止(とど)めた (todometa))

1. Alternative form of 留める