HARAKIRI

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword; practiced by samurai in the traditional Japanese society

Synonyms:

hara-kiri; harakiri; harikari; seppuku

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("harakiri" is a kind of...):

self-annihilation; self-destruction; suicide (the act of killing yourself)

Domain region:

Japan; Nihon; Nippon (a constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building)

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