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harakiri
{i} honorable suicide through self-disembowelment (ceremonial suicide practiced by the Japanese samurai when disgraced or under a death sentence)
Suicide, by slashing the abdomen, formerly practiced in Japan, and commanded by the government in the cases of disgraced officials; disembowelment; - - also written, but incorrectly, hari-kari
alternative spelling of hara-kiri
a way of killing yourself by cutting open your stomach, used in the past in Japan to avoid losing honour
ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword; practiced by warriors in the traditional Japanese society
(isim) harakiri