to stop/hold back the flow of rivers, etc. / to halt progress

center; core; dead center

to help; to assist / to save; to rescue

conjunctive form of 助ける (tasukeru) [ichidan]

child

road, street, a way for local traffic

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

to stand, to stand up, to rise / to depart / to close / of something physical but not solid or liquid: to be released, to rise