HARAKIRI

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does harakiri mean? 

• HARAKIRI (noun)
  The noun HARAKIRI has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: HARAKIRI used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HARAKIRI (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

hara-kiri; harakiri; harikari; seppuku

Hypernyms ("harakiri" is a kind of...):

self-annihilation; self-destruction; suicide (the act of killing yourself)

Domain region:

Japan; Nihon; Nippon (a constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building)

 Context examples 

This allele, which encodes activator of apoptosis harakiri protein, is involved in the regulation of apoptosis.

(HRK wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Activator of apoptosis harakiri (91 aa, ~10 kDa) is encoded by the human HRK gene.

(Activator of Apoptosis Harakiri, NCI Thesaurus)