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immolate

Rfv-sense: To disembowel a person. I checked some Onelook dictionaries and none had it. Mglovesfun (talk) 11:04, 23 September 2013 (UTC)

I think this is possibly a confusion arising from the Japanese practise of hara-kiri (self-disembowelling) sometimes being described as self-immolation.[1][2] Of course one can sacrifice by disembowelling but that does not make disembowelling synonymous with sacrifice. It is no more correct than giving crucifixion as a definition of execution. SpinningSpark 11:38, 24 September 2013 (UTC)

• RFV failed: no quoations provided. --Dan Polansky (talk) 20:07, 14 November 2013 (UTC)