| NOUN | act | dirty war | 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 |
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| 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. | |
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| Example | "thousands of people disappeared and were killed during Argentina's dirty war in the late 1970s" | |
| Category | terrorism, act of terrorism, terrorist act | The calculated use of violence (or the threat / threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature |
| Broader | offense, offence, offensive | The action of attacking an enemy / enemy |
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