迫る – Vocabulary details

迫せまる

Verb (5-dan, る, intransitive)

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

歩あるくほどに、眼がん前ぜんから海うみが迫せまってくるようだ。The more I walk, the more the sea seems to loom before my eyes.

Verb (5-dan, る, transitive)

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

辛つらい選せん択たくを迫せまってる自じ覚かくはある。I know I'm pressing you to make a hard choice.

draw very near

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to be bloodcurdling; to be ghastly

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

to be true to nature; to be lifelike

クリスマスも目めの前まえに迫せまっている。

Christmas is just around the corner, too.

破は滅めつは目めの前まえに迫せまっているのだ。

Ruin is closing in, right before our eyes.

町まちに戦せん争そうの影かげが迫せまっていた。

The shadow of war was closing in on the town.

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