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Definition of hara-kiri noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

hara-kiri

noun
 
/ˌhærə ˈkɪri/
 
/ˌhɑːrə ˈkɪri/
[uncountable] (from Japanese)
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  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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