Chinese word

阻止

Pronunciation

Pinyinzǔ zhǐ

Meaning

  • verbstop

Example

我尽力阻止了那次争吵。wǒ jìn lì zú zhǐ le nà cì zhēng chǎo

I did my best to stop that argument.

Illustration for 阻止 (stop)

More examples

警方阻止了这起犯罪。jǐng fāng zú zhǐ le zhè qǐ fàn zuì

The police prevented this crime.

Core concept

An outside force keeps a developing action or event from reaching its next stage.

Common phrases

  • 阻止犯罪zú zhǐ fàn zuì

    prevent crime

  • 阻止传播疾病zú zhǐ chuán bō jí bìng

    prevent the spread of disease

Similar words

妨碍fáng ài: To hinder progress or someone's actions, making them harder to carry out successfully.
阻挡zú dǎng: To physically block the movement or passage of a person or object.
拦住lán zhù: To stop a moving person or object and keep it from going farther.
阻挠zǔ náo: To deliberately obstruct someone's plan or efforts through active interference.

Definition in Chinese

用某种方法使正在发生或预计要发生的事情停止或不发生。yòng móu zhǒng fāng fǎ shǐ zhèng zài fā shēng huò yù jì yào fā shēng de shì qíng tíng zhǐ huò bù fā shēng

Word origin

阻 (zǔ, "hinder") + 止 (zhǐ, "cease") form a compound that presents interference as bringing an action to an end.

Usage tips

  • 阻止 (zǔzhǐ, "to keep from happening") can take a person, action, or event as its object, making one verb useful across many everyday situations.

Other meanings

  • preventverb
  • blockverb

Opposites

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