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seppuku

[ se-poo-koo ]

seppuku

/ sɛˈpuːkuː /

noun

  1. another word for hara-kiri
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of seppuku1

First recorded in 1900–05; from Japanese, earlier s(y)et-puku, from Middle Chinese, equivalent to Chinese qiè “cut” + “belly”
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Word History and Origins

Origin of seppuku1

from Japanese, from Chinese ch`ieh to cut + fu bowels
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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.

From Reuters

“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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