harakiri

English Thesaurus

1. ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword; practiced by samurai in the traditional Japanese society (noun.act)

hypernym	:	self-annihilation, self-destruction, suicide,
definition	:	the act of killing yourself (noun.act)

domain region	:	japan, nihon, nippon,
definition	:	a constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building (noun.location)