Associations to the word «Harakiri»

Wiktionary

HARAKIRI, noun. Alternative spelling of hara-kiri

Dictionary definition

HARAKIRI, noun. Ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword; practiced by samurai in the traditional Japanese society.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne