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Psychological warfare

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Noun
  1. 1
    A mentally manipulative approach to warfare involving use of techniques to demoralize or intimidate someone into surrender. idiomatic, uncountable

    "Li also inspected a psychological warfare unit at Huchingtou, Liehyu, where he saw off a balloon carrying materials showing the free bastion of Taiwan's warm support for the pro-democracy movement on the China mainland."

  2. 2
    the use of psychological tactics to destroy the opponents' morale wordnet
  3. 3
    Mind games. broadly, uncountable

    "Bill Tilden invented tennis as we now know it. He changed it from the gentlemanly pastime of the 1920s into a professional sport involving stars, strategies and large amounts of money, from a dull and predictable game into a tactical enterprise involving strategy and psychological warfare, net shots, scoops and lobs, all calculated to throw opponents off balance."

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