1. the unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons.

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.

1. the act of terrorizing, or state of being terrorized; a mode of government by terror or intimidation.
2. the practise of coercing governments to accede to political demands by committing violence on civilian targets; any similar use of violence to achieve goals.

1. resort to terrorizing methods as a means of coercion, or the state of fear and submission produced by the prevalence of such methods.

1. the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear