hara kiri
[noun]
Synonyms: suicide, felo-de-se, self-destruction, self-murder, self-slaughter, self-violence

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hara-kiri noun

1. an act of killing yourself by cutting open your stomach with a sword, performed especially by the samurai in Japan in the past, to avoid losing honour
   Word Originmid 19th cent.: colloquial Japanese, from hara ‘belly’ + kiri ‘cutting’.

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