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(streɪf)
Word forms: 3rd person singular presenttense strafes, present participle strafing, past tense, past participle strafed
verb
To strafe an enemy means to attack them with a lot of bombs or bullets from a low-flying aircraft.
It seemed that the plane was going to swoop down and strafe the town, so we divedfor cover. [VERB noun]

strafe in British English

(streɪf, strɑːf)
verb (transitive)
1. 
to machine-gun (troops, etc) from the air
2.  slang
to punish harshly
noun
3. 
an act or instance of strafing
Derived forms
strafer (ˈstrafer)
noun
Word origin
C20: from German strafen to punish

strafe in American English

(streɪf; Chiefly British strɑf)
verb transitiveWord forms: strafed or ˈstrafing
to attack with gunfire; esp., to attack (ground positions, troops, etc.) with machine-gun fire from low-flying aircraft
Derived forms
strafer (ˈstrafer)
noun
Word origin
< Ger phr. Gott strafe England (God punish England) used in World War I

Examples of 'strafe' in a sentence
strafe

Once those helicopters got into the air, they would be able to strafe the guerrillas almost at leisure.
Shah, Idries KARA KUSH (1998)
Overhead the Harriers and F-18s raced in to strafe the line of palm trees just inshore from the target beach.
James W. Huston BALANCE OF POWER (1998)
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