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nonterror

adj

Etymology

From non- + terror.

  1. derived from *tre-✻
  2. derived from *trozeō✻
  3. derived from tr̥reō
  4. derived from terror — “fright, fear, terror”
  5. derived from terreur
  6. inherited from terrour
  7. prefixed as nonterror — “non + terror”

Definitions

  1. Not of or pertaining to terrorism.

    • Since Sept. 11, 2001, when the country’s attention understandably turned to terrorism, nearly 120,000 Americans have been killed in nonterror homicides, most of them committed with guns.

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