About The Word Hara-kiri
Learn about the word Hara-kiri to help solve your crossword puzzle. Discover Hara-kiri definitions and meaning, origins, synonyms, related terms and more at the free Crossword Dictionary.
Hara-kiri
| Hara-kiri Definition And Meaning |
|---|
What's The Definition Of Hara-kiri?
[n] (Japan) ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword; practiced by warriors in the traditional Japanese society
Synonyms | Synonyms for Hara-kiri: harakiri | harikari Related Terms | Find terms related to Hara-kiri: See Also | self-annihilation | self-destruction | suicide Hara-kiri In Webster's Dictionary \Ha"ra-ki`ri\, n. [Jap., stomach cutting.]
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.
|
More Crossword Puzzle Words
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
Cross Word Of The Day
- Perfect ‐ a tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed…
- Domain ‐ a knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating…
- Consent decree ‐ an agreement between two parties that is sanctioned by the court;…
- Signatory ‐ someone who signs and is bound by…
- Hunting license ‐ a license authorizing the bearer to kill a certain type of animal…
- Genus hermannia ‐ genus of African herbs and subshrubs having honey-scented bell-shaped…
- Portico ‐ a porch or entrance to a building consisting of a covered and…
- Unaffiliated ‐ not…
- Multiple regression ‐ a statistical technique that predicts values of one variable…
- Xor gate ‐ gate for exclusive OR; a circuit in a computer that fires only…