Converse of object

• kill: Then there are the innocent civilians killed in Iraq.

• terrorize: To Makarios's right stood the right wing guerrilla leader George Grivas, who spent more time terrorizing Turkish civilians than fighting the British.

• displace: Sources of information include local authorities, local civilians, and displaced civilians.

• protect: The international community is obviously neither able nor willing to protect Bosnian civilians.

Preposition: on

• side: Thankfully we managed to talk to them and say that we would give out the relief supplies to civilians on both sides.

Adjective modifier

• innocent: The killing of innocent civilians is the issue here.

• unarmed: To suppress the revolt, Kolchak ordered soldiers to open fire, killing over 300 unarmed civilians.

• Iraqi: Saddam Hussein could have been removed from power without bombing Iraqi civilians surely?

• Serb: Contributing to the flight of Serbs from Kosovo are reports of violence against Serb civilians.

Modifies a noun

• casualty: Debt of Honor Register provides the names of Second World War civilian casualties.

• population: Being sure the civilian population is not attacked is key.

• internee: Many of the Far East prisoners were civilian internees and their story should also be told and remembered.

• personnel: Pensions payable after normal retirement age are met by the PCSPS for civilian personnel.

• clothes: Most of them wore civilian clothes, some of them SS uniform.

• airliner: The Nimrod entered service in 1969 as the MR 1 Variant, derived from the civilian airliner; the Comet.