とめる
to stop (at some place)
A footprint planted flat on the ground and going no further. Pull the car in, Tom とめ, and leave it standing exactly there: とめる.
Same characters as やめる, this reading stops a moving thing in a place. 止まる とまる is it coming to a stop on its own.
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