seppuku

noun seppuku

• disembowelment — to remove the bowels or entrails from; eviscerate.
• felo de se — a person who commits suicide or commits an unlawful malicious act resulting in his or her own death.
• felo-de-se — a person who commits suicide or commits an unlawful malicious act resulting in his or her own death.
• hara-kiri — Also called seppuku. ceremonial suicide by ripping open the abdomen with a dagger or knife: formerly practiced in Japan by members of the warrior class when disgraced or sentenced to death.
• kamikaze — (during World War II) a member of a special corps in the Japanese air force charged with the suicidal mission of crashing an aircraft laden with explosives into an enemy target, especially a warship.