English noun: dirty war | |||
1. | dirty war (act) 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 | ||
Samples | Thousands of people disappeared and were killed during Argentina's dirty war in the late 1970s. | ||
Broader (hypernym) | offence, offense, offensive | ||
Domain category | act of terrorism, terrorism, terrorist act | ||