Seppuku

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  • noun. Ritual suicide by disembowelment formerly practiced by Japanese samurai.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Same as hara-kiri.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Same as hara-kiri.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A form of ritual suicide by disembowelment using a blade, practiced by Japanese samurai, especially to rid oneself of shame, as a means of protest or, formerly, as a method of capital punishment.
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  • noun. ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword; practiced by samurai in the traditional Japanese society
    • cross-reference
    bushido  hara-kiri  kamikaze  suicide  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    self-annihilation  self-destruction  suicide  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    beef-eating  drown  duelling  formulary  hashing  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    hara-kiri  
    variant
    harakiri  
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