strafen.

Brit.

/streɪf/,

/strɑːf/, U.S.

/streɪf/

Forms: 1900s– sträfe, 1900s– strafe, 1900s– straff.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: strafe v.

Etymology: < strafe v.

A fierce attack or heavy bombardment; (now) spec. an attack with bombs or (esp.) machine-gun fire from low-flying aircraft. Also figurative: a severe reprimand.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > attack > [noun]

fiend-reseOE

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source1616

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impulsion1631

tentative1632

essaya1641

infall1645

attack1655

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insult1710

coup de main1759

onfall1837

hurrah1841

beat-up of quarters1870

offensive1887

strafe1915

grand slam1916

hop-over1918

run1941

strike1942

society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > [noun] > air operation > attack from low level

strafe1915

ground-strafing1928

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > [noun] > instance of

admonishingc1350

reproofc1400

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snibc1450

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rousting1900

strafe1915

strafing1915

raspberry1919

rousing1923

bottle1938

reaming1944

ticking-off1950

serve1967

1915 F. Palmer My Year of Great War xx. 308 To be awakened..by the sound of a fusillade—the ‘morning hate’ or the ‘morning strafe’, as it was called.

1916 W. S. Churchill Let. 18 Feb. in W. S. Churchill & C. S. Churchill Speaking for Themselves (1999) vii. 178 I organised a little sträfe last night of wh I enclose my report.

1918 J. M. Grider Diary 31 Jan. in J. M. Grider & E. W. Springs War Birds (1926) 73 The C.O...and Capt. Horn, our new flight commander, were all set for a big straff because we were supposed to be back at nine.

1939 War Illustr. 11 Nov. 288/1 (heading) German officer called Polish campaign a ‘strafe’ expedition, not a war.

1979 Guardian 24 July 19/1 The subject of the strafe was the standard of food.

2011 R. Johnson Afghan Way of War v. 194 The weight of British artillery fire and strafes by aircraft silenced them.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

strafev.

Brit.

/streɪf/,

/strɑːf/, U.S.

/streɪf/

Forms: 1900s– strafe, 1900s– straff.

Origin: A borrowing from German. Etymons: German strafe, strafen.

Etymology: < German strafe, third person present subjunctive of strafen to punish, in Gott strafe England!, ‘God punish England!’, a slogan widely used in German military propaganda of the First World War, which was also used as a form of greeting, salutation, and valediction in Germany and Austria from 1914 (with the expected response Er strafe es!, ‘May He punish her’).Compare: 1915 Irish Times 11 June 4/5 Chocolate does not promote sociability; ‘Gott strafe chocolate,’ exclaims a lance-corporal.1915 Daily Mail 18 June 3/7 Four Etonians dining together at the front recently sent a telegram to the headmaster which concluded: ‘Floreat Etona, Gott strafe Harrow.’

1. transitive. To punish, damage, injure; to attack physically or verbally; (also) to reprimand severely. Also intransitive.In some later examples probably as a figurative use of sense 2b.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > cause or effect (harm) [verb (transitive)] > do harm or injury to

werdec725

wema1000

evilc1000

harmc1000

hinderc1000

teenOE

scathec1175

illc1220

to wait (one) scathec1275

to have (…) wrong1303

annoya1325

grievec1330

wrong1390

to do violence to (also unto)a1393

mischievea1393

damagea1400

annulc1425

trespass1427

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poisonc1450

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damnify1512

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indemnify1583

bane1601

debauch1633

lese1678

empoison1780

misguggle1814

nobble1860

strafe1915

to dick up1951

the mind > language > malediction > [verb (transitive)] > abuse, scold, or wrangle

chidec1230

revilea1393

to call (rarely to speak) (all) to naught1542

vituperate1542

abuse1592

to speak or look daggers1603

outrage1608

cuss1831

slangwhang1880

strafe1915

slag1958

name-call1960

the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > damage or injure [verb (transitive)]

mareOE

shendOE

hinderc1000

amarOE

awemc1275

noyc1300

touchc1300

bleche1340

blemisha1375

spill1377

misdoa1387

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despoil?a1400

matea1400

snapea1400

mankc1400

overthrowa1425

tamec1430

undermine1430

blunder1440

depaira1460

adommage?1473

endamage1477

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fulyie1488

martyra1500

dyscrase?1504

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danger1538

destroy1542

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wrong1595

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to do violence toa1625

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moil1698

damnify1712

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maul1782

buga1790

mux1806

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batter1840

puckeroo1840

rim-rack1841

pretty1868

garbage1899

savage1899

to do in1905

strafe1915

mash1924

blow1943

nuke1967

mung1969

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > rebuke or reprove [verb (transitive)]

threac897

threapc897

begripea1000

threata1000

castea1200

chaste?c1225

takec1275

blame1297

chastya1300

sniba1300

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undernima1325

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snuba1340

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chastisea1375

arate1377

challenge1377

undertake1377

reprehenda1382

repreync1390

runta1398

snapea1400

underfoc1400

to call to account1434

to put downc1440

snebc1440

uptakec1440

correptc1449

reformc1450

reprise?c1450

to tell (a person) his (also her, etc.) own1450

control1451

redarguec1475

berisp1481

to hit (cross) one over (of, on) the thumbs1522

checkc1530

admonish1541

nip1548

twig?1550

impreve1552

lesson1555

to take down1562

to haul (a person) over the coals1565

increpate1570

touch1570

school1573

to gather up1577

task1580

redarguate?1590

expostulate1592

tutor1599

sauce1601

snip1601

sneap1611

to take in tax1635

to sharp up1647

round1653

threapen1671

reprimand1681

to take to task1682

document1690

chapter1693

repulse1746

twink1747

to speak to ——1753

haul1795

to pull up1799

carpet1840

rig1841

to talk to1860

to take (a person) to the woodshed1882

rawhide1895

to tell off1897

to tell (someone) where he or she gets off1900

to get on ——1904

to put (a person) in (also into) his, her place1908

strafe1915

tick1915

woodshed1935

to slap (a person) down1938

sort1941

bind1942

bottle1946

mat1948

ream1950

zap1961

elder1967

1915 Scotsman 25 June 7/2 What is that expression the Germans use about us? ‘God strafe them.’ Well, we hope He won't.

1915 A. D. Gillespie Let. 17 July in Lett. from Flanders (1916) 240 I never saw a billet like this for flies... We are trying poison too, but however we may ‘strafe’ there are just as many left.

1926 J. M. Grider & E. W. Springs War Birds 33 A regular army West Point major came over from Paris to look us over Sunday and straffed hell out of us in front of the British Colonel and his staff.

1965 Listener 16 Dec. 1012/1 At least the latter straffed right and left with an energetic disregard for anything but her own sense of superiority.

1970 Boating Nov. 51 My wife swiveled around in her bow seat again and strafed me with an accusing glare.

1979 B. Parvin Deadly Dyke xv. 81 The Stone Cottages were..in need of repair, their paintwork peeling and strafed by the Fenland winds.

2002 Sunday Mirror (Nexis) 8 Dec. 42 Gary Naysmith's strike..proved to be the catalyst for Everton to strafe Chelsea keeper Carlo Cudicini from all angles in the second half.

a. transitive. To attack with weapons. Now rare except as in sense 2b.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > attack > attack [verb (transitive)]

greetc893

overfallOE

riseOE

assail?c1225

to lay on or upon?c1225

onseekc1275

to set on ——c1290

infighta1300

saila1300

to go upon ——c1300

to turn one's handc1325

lashc1330

annoyc1380

impugnc1384

offendc1385

to fall on ——a1387

sault1387

affrayc1390

to set upon ——1390

to fall upon ——a1398

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havec1400

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attachc1425

to set at ——c1430

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oppugn?a1475

sayc1475

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envahisshe1489

assaulta1500

to lay to, untoa1500

requirea1500

enterprise?1510

invade1513

assemblec1515

expugn1530

to fare on1535

to fall into ——1550

mount1568

attack?1576

affront1579

invest1598

canvass1599

to take arms1604

attempt1605

to make force at, to, upon1607

salute1609

offence1614

strikea1616

to give a lift at1622

to get at ——1650

insult1697

to walk into ——1794

to go in at1812

to go for ——1838

to light on ——1842

strafe1915

1915 ‘Agamemnon’ Times (typescript, Imperial War Mus.) 1 Sept. 2 It was..a little surprising when he [sc. ‘Fort 1, with its two fairly modern 9.4s’] started crashing off at us just as we were about to commence straffing him.

1915 Times 17 Nov. 7/5 As the Huns got the wind up and expected our attack at any time, they ‘strafed’ us most cruelly in return.

1916 MS Let. from Front Feb.–Mar. There is not much Hun artillery fire, but as our guns strafe them well every day, I expect they will wake up and return the compliment.

1925 Atlantic Monthly Nov. 657 If they've got that support trench covered they've got wind we're going to be relieved. They're going to strafe us when we start out.

1987 Guardian (Nexis) 6 Nov. He and two others hijacked a car..and..took time out to strafe the home of a prison officer.

b. transitive. spec. To attack repeatedly with bombs or (esp.) machine-gun fire from low-flying aircraft. (Now the usual sense.)See also ground-strafe vb. at ground n. Compounds 1d(f)(i).

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > attack with aircraft [verb (transitive)] > attack from low level

strafe1917

rhubarb1943

1917 Sat. Evening Post 14 July 26/1 He would go ‘Archie strafing’—that is, flying low over the anti-aircraft guns and attacking them with machine-gun fire.]

1917 Manch. Guardian 3 Aug. 5/4 He..dived at them with rapid bursts of machine-gun fire... From the ditches men fired at him with rifles, so he swooped low and ‘strafed’ them.

1917 F. P. Lahm Diary 20 Sept. (1970) 9 Other destroyers surrounded it [sc. a submarine], dropped depth bombs—and ‘strafed’ it.

1941 Pop. Sci. Monthly July 68/2 Hedge-hopping, as flying a few feet above trees is called, is of great tactical value for strafing ground troops and cleaning out machine-gun nests.

1944 Sun (Baltimore) 12 Dec. 20/1 Most of the fighter escort of the 1,600 bombers..dropped to telephone-pole level to strafe trucks and trains heading from Frankfurt to the Saarbrucken battle zone.

1958 Lethbridge Herald (Lethbridge, Alberta) 9 Sept. 3/1 A swift sortie by two Spitfires sweeping at ‘nought feet’ over enemy territory, strafing anything military looking in sight.

1982 Daily Tel. 18 Jan. 4/8 Filipino officials have denied a claim by Tokyo that their air force strafed the Japanese oil tanker.

2010 Independent 22 Apr. (Viewspaper section) 6/1 Long lines of us standing waist-deep in the sea, being regularly dive-bombed by Stukas and strafed by fighter planes.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	strafe
释义	strafen. Brit. /streɪf/, /strɑːf/, U.S. /streɪf/ Forms: 1900s– sträfe, 1900s– strafe, 1900s– straff. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: strafe v. Etymology: < strafe v. A fierce attack or heavy bombardment; (now) spec. an attack with bombs or (esp.) machine-gun fire from low-flying aircraft. Also figurative: a severe reprimand. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > attack > [noun] fiend-reseOE frumresec1275 assault1297 sault1297 inracea1300 sailing13.. venuea1330 checkc1330 braid1340 affrayc1380 outrunningc1384 resinga1387 wara1387 riota1393 assailc1400 assayc1400 onset1423 rake?a1425 pursuitc1425 assemblinga1450 brunta1450 oncominga1450 assembly1487 envaya1500 oncomea1500 shovea1500 front1523 scry1523 attemptate1524 assaulting1548 push1565 brash1573 attempt1584 affront?1587 pulse1587 affret1590 saliaunce1590 invasion1591 assailment1592 insultation1596 aggressa1611 onslaught1613 source1616 confronta1626 impulsion1631 tentative1632 essaya1641 infall1645 attack1655 stroke1698 insult1710 coup de main1759 onfall1837 hurrah1841 beat-up of quarters1870 offensive1887 strafe1915 grand slam1916 hop-over1918 run1941 strike1942 society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > [noun] > air operation > attack from low level strafe1915 ground-strafing1928 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > [noun] > instance of admonishingc1350 reproofc1400 fliting1435 rebuke?a1439 snibc1450 reprehensiona1500 redargution1514 remorda1529 piece of one's mind1536 check1541 snuba1556 rebuking1561 boba1566 sneap1600 snipping1601 reprimand1636 repriment1652 rubber1699 slap1736 twinkation1748 rap1777 throughgoing1817 dressing-down1823 downset1824 hazing1829 snubbing1841 downsetting1842 raking1852 calling1855 talking toc1875 rousting1900 strafe1915 strafing1915 raspberry1919 rousing1923 bottle1938 reaming1944 ticking-off1950 serve1967 1915 F. Palmer My Year of Great War xx. 308 To be awakened..by the sound of a fusillade—the ‘morning hate’ or the ‘morning strafe’, as it was called. 1916 W. S. Churchill Let. 18 Feb. in W. S. Churchill & C. S. Churchill Speaking for Themselves (1999) vii. 178 I organised a little sträfe last night of wh I enclose my report. 1918 J. M. Grider Diary 31 Jan. in J. M. Grider & E. W. Springs War Birds (1926) 73 The C.O...and Capt. Horn, our new flight commander, were all set for a big straff because we were supposed to be back at nine. 1939 War Illustr. 11 Nov. 288/1 (heading) German officer called Polish campaign a ‘strafe’ expedition, not a war. 1979 Guardian 24 July 19/1 The subject of the strafe was the standard of food. 2011 R. Johnson Afghan Way of War v. 194 The weight of British artillery fire and strafes by aircraft silenced them. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). strafev. Brit. /streɪf/, /strɑːf/, U.S. /streɪf/ Forms: 1900s– strafe, 1900s– straff. Origin: A borrowing from German. Etymons: German strafe, strafen. Etymology: < German strafe, third person present subjunctive of strafen to punish, in Gott strafe England!, ‘God punish England!’, a slogan widely used in German military propaganda of the First World War, which was also used as a form of greeting, salutation, and valediction in Germany and Austria from 1914 (with the expected response Er strafe es!, ‘May He punish her’).Compare: 1915 Irish Times 11 June 4/5 Chocolate does not promote sociability; ‘Gott strafe chocolate,’ exclaims a lance-corporal.1915 Daily Mail 18 June 3/7 Four Etonians dining together at the front recently sent a telegram to the headmaster which concluded: ‘Floreat Etona, Gott strafe Harrow.’ 1. transitive. To punish, damage, injure; to attack physically or verbally; (also) to reprimand severely. Also intransitive.In some later examples probably as a figurative use of sense 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > cause or effect (harm) [verb (transitive)] > do harm or injury to werdec725 wema1000 evilc1000 harmc1000 hinderc1000 teenOE scathec1175 illc1220 to wait (one) scathec1275 to have (…) wrong1303 annoya1325 grievec1330 wrong1390 to do violence to (also unto)a1393 mischievea1393 damagea1400 annulc1425 trespass1427 mischief1437 poisonc1450 injurea1492 damnify1512 prejudge1531 misfease1571 indemnify1583 bane1601 debauch1633 lese1678 empoison1780 misguggle1814 nobble1860 strafe1915 to dick up1951 the mind > language > malediction > [verb (transitive)] > abuse, scold, or wrangle chidec1230 revilea1393 to call (rarely to speak) (all) to naught1542 vituperate1542 abuse1592 to speak or look daggers1603 outrage1608 cuss1831 slangwhang1880 strafe1915 slag1958 name-call1960 the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > damage or injure [verb (transitive)] mareOE shendOE hinderc1000 amarOE awemc1275 noyc1300 touchc1300 bleche1340 blemisha1375 spill1377 misdoa1387 grieve1390 damagea1400 despoil?a1400 matea1400 snapea1400 mankc1400 overthrowa1425 tamec1430 undermine1430 blunder1440 depaira1460 adommage?1473 endamage1477 prejudicec1487 fulyie1488 martyra1500 dyscrase?1504 corrupt1526 mangle1534 danger1538 destroy1542 spoil1563 ruinate1564 ruin1567 wrake1570 injury1579 bane1587 massacre1589 ravish1594 wrong1595 rifle1604 tainta1616 mutilea1618 to do violence toa1625 flaw1665 stun1676 quail1682 maul1694 moil1698 damnify1712 margullie1721 maul1782 buga1790 mux1806 queer1818 batter1840 puckeroo1840 rim-rack1841 pretty1868 garbage1899 savage1899 to do in1905 strafe1915 mash1924 blow1943 nuke1967 mung1969 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > rebuke or reprove [verb (transitive)] threac897 threapc897 begripea1000 threata1000 castea1200 chaste?c1225 takec1275 blame1297 chastya1300 sniba1300 withnima1315 undernima1325 rebukec1330 snuba1340 withtakea1340 reprovec1350 chastisea1375 arate1377 challenge1377 undertake1377 reprehenda1382 repreync1390 runta1398 snapea1400 underfoc1400 to call to account1434 to put downc1440 snebc1440 uptakec1440 correptc1449 reformc1450 reprise?c1450 to tell (a person) his (also her, etc.) own1450 control1451 redarguec1475 berisp1481 to hit (cross) one over (of, on) the thumbs1522 checkc1530 admonish1541 nip1548 twig?1550 impreve1552 lesson1555 to take down1562 to haul (a person) over the coals1565 increpate1570 touch1570 school1573 to gather up1577 task1580 redarguate?1590 expostulate1592 tutor1599 sauce1601 snip1601 sneap1611 to take in tax1635 to sharp up1647 round1653 threapen1671 reprimand1681 to take to task1682 document1690 chapter1693 repulse1746 twink1747 to speak to ——1753 haul1795 to pull up1799 carpet1840 rig1841 to talk to1860 to take (a person) to the woodshed1882 rawhide1895 to tell off1897 to tell (someone) where he or she gets off1900 to get on ——1904 to put (a person) in (also into) his, her place1908 strafe1915 tick1915 woodshed1935 to slap (a person) down1938 sort1941 bind1942 bottle1946 mat1948 ream1950 zap1961 elder1967 1915 Scotsman 25 June 7/2 What is that expression the Germans use about us? ‘God strafe them.’ Well, we hope He won't. 1915 A. D. Gillespie Let. 17 July in Lett. from Flanders (1916) 240 I never saw a billet like this for flies... We are trying poison too, but however we may ‘strafe’ there are just as many left. 1926 J. M. Grider & E. W. Springs War Birds 33 A regular army West Point major came over from Paris to look us over Sunday and straffed hell out of us in front of the British Colonel and his staff. 1965 Listener 16 Dec. 1012/1 At least the latter straffed right and left with an energetic disregard for anything but her own sense of superiority. 1970 Boating Nov. 51 My wife swiveled around in her bow seat again and strafed me with an accusing glare. 1979 B. Parvin Deadly Dyke xv. 81 The Stone Cottages were..in need of repair, their paintwork peeling and strafed by the Fenland winds. 2002 Sunday Mirror (Nexis) 8 Dec. 42 Gary Naysmith's strike..proved to be the catalyst for Everton to strafe Chelsea keeper Carlo Cudicini from all angles in the second half. 2. a. transitive. To attack with weapons. Now rare except as in sense 2b. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > attack > attack [verb (transitive)] greetc893 overfallOE riseOE assail?c1225 to lay on or upon?c1225 onseekc1275 to set on ——c1290 infighta1300 saila1300 to go upon ——c1300 to turn one's handc1325 lashc1330 annoyc1380 impugnc1384 offendc1385 to fall on ——a1387 sault1387 affrayc1390 to set upon ——1390 to fall upon ——a1398 to lay at?a1400 semblea1400 assayc1400 havec1400 aset1413 oppressa1425 attachc1425 to set at ——c1430 fraya1440 fray1465 oppugn?a1475 sayc1475 envaye1477 pursue1488 envahisshe1489 assaulta1500 to lay to, untoa1500 requirea1500 enterprise?1510 invade1513 assemblec1515 expugn1530 to fare on1535 to fall into ——1550 mount1568 attack?1576 affront1579 invest1598 canvass1599 to take arms1604 attempt1605 to make force at, to, upon1607 salute1609 offence1614 strikea1616 to give a lift at1622 to get at ——1650 insult1697 to walk into ——1794 to go in at1812 to go for ——1838 to light on ——1842 strafe1915 1915 ‘Agamemnon’ Times (typescript, Imperial War Mus.) 1 Sept. 2 It was..a little surprising when he [sc. ‘Fort 1, with its two fairly modern 9.4s’] started crashing off at us just as we were about to commence straffing him. 1915 Times 17 Nov. 7/5 As the Huns got the wind up and expected our attack at any time, they ‘strafed’ us most cruelly in return. 1916 MS Let. from Front Feb.–Mar. There is not much Hun artillery fire, but as our guns strafe them well every day, I expect they will wake up and return the compliment. 1925 Atlantic Monthly Nov. 657 If they've got that support trench covered they've got wind we're going to be relieved. They're going to strafe us when we start out. 1987 Guardian (Nexis) 6 Nov. He and two others hijacked a car..and..took time out to strafe the home of a prison officer. b. transitive. spec. To attack repeatedly with bombs or (esp.) machine-gun fire from low-flying aircraft. (Now the usual sense.)See also ground-strafe vb. at ground n. Compounds 1d(f)(i). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > attack with aircraft [verb (transitive)] > attack from low level strafe1917 rhubarb1943 1917 Sat. Evening Post 14 July 26/1 He would go ‘Archie strafing’—that is, flying low over the anti-aircraft guns and attacking them with machine-gun fire.] 1917 Manch. Guardian 3 Aug. 5/4 He..dived at them with rapid bursts of machine-gun fire... From the ditches men fired at him with rifles, so he swooped low and ‘strafed’ them. 1917 F. P. Lahm Diary 20 Sept. (1970) 9 Other destroyers surrounded it [sc. a submarine], dropped depth bombs—and ‘strafed’ it. 1941 Pop. Sci. Monthly July 68/2 Hedge-hopping, as flying a few feet above trees is called, is of great tactical value for strafing ground troops and cleaning out machine-gun nests. 1944 Sun (Baltimore) 12 Dec. 20/1 Most of the fighter escort of the 1,600 bombers..dropped to telephone-pole level to strafe trucks and trains heading from Frankfurt to the Saarbrucken battle zone. 1958 Lethbridge Herald (Lethbridge, Alberta) 9 Sept. 3/1 A swift sortie by two Spitfires sweeping at ‘nought feet’ over enemy territory, strafing anything military looking in sight. 1982 Daily Tel. 18 Jan. 4/8 Filipino officials have denied a claim by Tokyo that their air force strafed the Japanese oil tanker. 2010 Independent 22 Apr. (Viewspaper section) 6/1 Long lines of us standing waist-deep in the sea, being regularly dive-bombed by Stukas and strafed by fighter planes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1915v.1915
随便看	to knock galleywest to knock head to knock heads together to knock heads with to knock in to knock in pieces to knock into a cocked hat to knock into the middle of next week to knock it back to knock off to knock off a person's head to knock off his or her perch to knock off the map to knock on to knock on in the head to knock on in the rarely at head to knock on the head to knock on the rarely at head to knock on wood to knock one a twister to knock one the twister to knock one's head against to knock oneself out to knock or run up against to knock out