harakiri

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Noun

TANDA HUBUNG

ha=ra=ki=ri

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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

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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]