单词 | suicide attack |
释义 | > as lemmassuicide attack b. As a modifier with the sense ‘designating a military or (now esp.) terrorist attack carried out with the intention or expectation of dying in the process; of, involved in, or carrying out such an attack’, as in suicide aircraft, suicide attack, suicide attacker, suicide plane, etc.See also suicide belt n. 2, suicide bomber n. at Compounds 2, suicide mission n. at Compounds 2, suicide squad n. 3, suicide vest n. at Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military operations > [adjective] > other types of operation strongc1300 air–land1915 suicide1923 air-to-ground1935 triphibious1941 amphibious1943 black?1945 air-to-surface1954 search and destroy1964 1923 R. Kipling Irish Guards in Great War I. 67 There seemed no meaning or reason in the affair, unless it was a suicide-party of Germans who had run from the attack of the day before and had been ordered thus to die. 1945 News Chron. 1 June 4/5 Conferences..are believed to have included plans to counter the..suicide plane. According to a Tokio statement, these suicide attacks..are being developed by the..Japanese Naval Command. 1946 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 50 293 As with the pages devoted to German aircraft, so with those given to Japanese. They are full and informative, and end with brief interesting notes on suicide aircraft and the Baka flying bomb. 1956 A. H. Compton Atomic Quest iv. 225 Japan's one great new weapon was her ‘kamikaze’ planes, loaded with bombs and guided to their targets by heroic suicide pilots. 1982 A. MacLean Partisans (1984) i. 15 They wouldn't hesitate to send a suicide commando behind our lines. 2004 9/11 Commission Rep. (National Comm. Terrorist Attacks upon U.S.) viii. 264 Two of these briefings discussed the hijacking threat overseas. None discussed the possibility of suicide hijackings or the use of aircraft as weapons. 2004 New Scientist 15 May 36/1 Apart from a few isolated cases, modern suicide terrorism has only ever been used against democracies. 2006 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 3 Aug. a23/2 In writing my book on suicide attackers, I had researchers scour Lebanese sources to collect martyr videos, pictures and testimonials and the biographies of the Hezbollah bombers. < as lemmas |
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