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DIRTY WAR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An offensive conducted by secret police or the military of a regime against revolutionary and terrorist insurgents and marked by the use of kidnapping and torture and murder with civilians often being the victims
Example:
thousands of people disappeared and were killed during Argentina's dirty war in the late 1970s
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("dirty war" is a kind of...):
offence; offense; offensive (the action of attacking an enemy)
Domain category:
act of terrorism; terrorism; terrorist act (the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear)
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