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Meaning of word dirty war from English dictionary with examples, synonyms and antonyms.

dirty war noun

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.

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