WordNet: 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; "thousands of people disappeared and were killed during Argentina's dirty war in the late 1970s"

• domain: topic act of terrorism, terrorism, terrorist act

• hypernym offence, offense, offensive

dirty war

• (suomi) likainen sota (synonyymi)