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seppuku
noun as in hara-kiri
Strong match
Weak matches
noun as in suicide
Weak matches
- hara-kiri
- mélange
- self-destruction
- self-immolation
- self-slaughter
Example Sentences
So, I commit first-date seppuku and tell him about my lens and my vision loss.
The rogue warrior whose forces he defeats calls for the young Toranaga himself to serve as his second in the ritual of seppuku.
Mariko’s entire family was executed for it — by her father, who committed seppuku after being forced to carry out the act.
He said such shame could only be washed away by committing seppuku - a form of suicide by disembowelment, also known as hara-kiri - at a meeting of the Japanese cabinet after Kishida's return.
“I loved it. But it’d be committing theatrical seppuku to transfer it,” a theater critic mutters to another at the show’s after party.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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