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terrorist

[ ter-er-ist ]

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noun

a person, usually a member of a group, who uses or advocates terrorism.
a person who terrorizes or frightens others.
(formerly) a member of a political group in Russia aiming at the demoralization of the government by terror.
an agent or partisan of the revolutionary tribunal during the Reign of Terror in France.

of, relating to, or characteristic of terrorism or terrorists:
terrorist tactics.

terrorist

/ ˈtɛrərɪst /

1. a person who employs terror or terrorism, esp as a political weapon
2. ( as modifier )
  terrorist tactics

First recorded in 1785–95; terror + -ist; compare French terroriste

Terrorist groups could certainly use those weapons in an attempt to shoot down an airliner.

Terrorist bombings are out of the question -- contrary to our rule of keeping your hands to yourself.

They left a week ago, after the Ukrainian Army began the latest and fiercest episode of its “Anti-Terrorist Operation.”

By now, the Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) had managed to intercept the phone conversations between the fidayeen and their handlers.

This is the central event in Harris-Gershon's memoir, What Do You Buy the Children of the Terrorist Who Tried to Kill Your Wife?

The other was that Danton, the great original Terrorist leader had perished on the scaffold as far back as April.

The Terrorist had a vague fear that the Citizen-Deputy would speak to the mob.

Again the officer bowed, wondering how on earth the Terrorist could have come by such accurate information.

"On the authority given me by the power to enforce an answer, sir," returned the Terrorist quietly.

As soon as the aerostats rose into the air, the Terrorist fleet receded northward and southward from the batteries.

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