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harakiri
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun harakiri has 1 sense
- harakiri(n = noun.act) hara-kiri, harikari, seppuku - ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword; practiced by samurai in the traditional Japanese society; Array is a kind of self-annihilation, self-destruction, suicide
CIDE DICTIONARY
harakiri, n. [Jap., stomach cutting.].
A ritual form of 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 . W. E. Griffis. [1913 Webster]
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