Definitions for hara-kiri

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hara-kiri ha·ra-ki·ri

Spelling: [hahr-uh-keer-ee, har- Hara-Kiri is a 9 letter English word.

You can make 65 anagrams from letters in hara-kiri (-aahiikrr).

Definitions for hara-kiri

noun

1. Also called seppuku. ceremonial suicide by ripping open the abdomen with a dagger or knife: formerly practiced in Japan by members of the warrior class when disgraced or sentenced to death.
2. suicide or any suicidal action; a self-destructive act:

Origin of hara-kiri

1855-60; Japanese, equivalent to hara belly (earlier fara *para) + kiri cut

Examples for hara-kiri

He was attending a lesson in hara-kiri taken by his young son.

I seemed fully to sympathize with the Japanese view of hara-kiri.

In old days the ceremony of hara-kiri used to be performed in a temple.

To boys there is given special training in the hara-kiri, or the art of ripping one's self up.

The performance of hara-kiri carried with it certain privileges.

So it was not without cause that they were taught at school the hara-kiri.

hara-kiri is hara-kiri, and the private performance is even more ghastly than the official one.

The hara-kiri was of course a last resort, but it was an honorable death.

After some days the boy died, and Kujuro was condemned to hara-kiri.

The ceremonies observed at the "hara-kiri" of a Daimio's retainer.