Terrorism

Noun

 * 1) The deliberate commission of an act of violence to create an emotional response through the suffering of the victims in the furtherance of a political or social agenda.
 * 2) Violence against civilians to achieve military or political objectives.
 * 3) A psychological strategy of war for gaining political or religious ends by deliberately creating a climate of fear among the population of a state.

Adjectives for Terrorism
cowardly; invisible; occasional; tragic; threatening; increasing; murderous; sheer; spontaneous; physical; brutal; unjustifiable; unscrupulous; impetuous; swift; bloody; extreme; odious; momentary; aggressive; stunning; devilish.

Verbs for Terrorism
assail—; castigate—; check—; curb—; inflict—; have recourse to—; revolt against—; subject to—; suppress—; tolerate—; —cankers ; —coerces; —crushes; —dictates; —domineers; —oppresses; —overrides; — persecutes; —ravages;  —reigns;  —restrains; —rides roughshod; —snuffs out; —stings; —tyrannizes; —tramples; — wreaks; —yokes.

Thesaurus
Bolshevikism, Bolshevism, Carbonarism, Castroism, Jacobinism, Maoism, Sinn Feinism, acuteness, anarchism, animality, argumentum baculinum, atrocity, barbarity, big stick, bloodlust, brutality, despotism, destructiveness, domination, domineering, extremity, fascism, ferociousness, fierceness, force, furiousness, harshness, heavy hand, high hand, horrification, impetuosity, inclemency, inhumanity, intensity, iron boot, iron hand, iron heel, malignity, mercilessness, mindlessness, murderousness, oppression, pitilessness, reign of terror, revolutionism, rigor, roughness, sans-culotterie, sans-culottism, savagery, scaremongering, severity, sharpness, syndicalism, terror tactics, terroristic tactics, terrorization, thought control, tyranny, ungentleness, vandalism, vehemence, venom, viciousness, violence, virulence

Etymology
The word first appears in English in 1795 in reference to the Jacobins of France, who ruled during the ‘Reign of Terror.’

Derived terms

 * agroterrorism
 * antiterrorism
 * bioterrorism
 * cyberterrorism
 * ecoterrorism
 * narcoterrorism

Translations

 * Arabic: إرهاب
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: тэрарызм
 * Bulgarian: тероризъм
 * Catalan: terrorisme
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: terorismo
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: ტერორიზმი
 * German:
 * Greek: τρομοκρατία (tromokratía)
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: आतंकवाद
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido: terorismo
 * Indonesian: terorisme
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: テロリズム
 * Kannada: aathankavaada


 * Korean: 테러리즘
 * Latin: tromocratia
 * Latvian: terorisms
 * Lithuanian: terorizmas
 * Luxembourgish: Terrorismus
 * Macedonian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian: ارعابگری, تروریسم
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: terorism
 * Russian: терроризм,  теракт
 * Serbian: tероризам,
 * Slovak: terorizem
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tamil: பயங்கரவாதம்
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: тероризм
 * Urdu: دہشت گردی, دہشت پسندی
 * Vietnamese: khủng bố
 * Volapük: jekälim, jekidun, jekidunot, jeikareig
 * Yiddish: טעראריזם

Noun

 * 1) terrorism

Related terms

 * terrorisera