psychological warfare
A mentally manipulative approach to warfare involving use of techniques to demoralize…A mentally manipulative approach to warfare involving use of techniques to demoralize or intimidate someone into surrender.
» Dan was an expert at psychological warfare.
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2 senses(idiomatic, uncountable)A mentally manipulative approach to warfare involving use of techniques to demoralize or intimidate someone into surrender.
psychologische Kriegsführung
психологическая войнаpsixologičeskaja vojna
психологічна війнаpsyxolohična vijna
(broadly, uncountable)Mind games.
- the use of psychological tactics to destroy the opponents' morale
Examples
9 sentencesDan was an expert at psychological warfare.
Dan studied psychological warfare techniques at infantry academy.
ruДэн изучал методы психологической войны в пехотном училище. — kinderpoke
We live in a time of psychological warfare.
Dan knows very well how to deal with psychological warfare.
Dan was in the special forces and they teach them psychological warfare there.
Translations
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Synonyms
2 synonyms- the use of psychological tactics to destroy the opponents' morale:war of nerves
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable