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strafe
[streyf, strahf]
verb (used with object)
to attack (ground troops or installations) by airplanes with machine-gun fire.
Slang.Ìýto reprimand viciously.
verb (used without object)
(of a player character in a video game) to move sideways while keeping a target in view, rather than turning the body to face the character’s destination in a regular forward movement.
noun
a strafing attack.
strafe
/ strÉ‘Ëf, streɪf /
verb
to machine-gun (troops, etc) from the air
slangÌýto punish harshly
noun
an act or instance of strafing
Other 51³Ô¹Ï Forms
- strafer noun
- unstrafed adjective
- ˈ²õ³Ù°ù²¹´Ú±ð°ù noun
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Origin of strafe1
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Origin of strafe1
Example Sentences
Watching Lyonne’s heroine tap dance away from strafing fire gets old pretty fast, but at least Johnson and his writers realize that.
The rain blew harder, strafing the windows, and as brother and sister talked, at times teasing one another, they suggested they were learning that life comes in increments of loss and renewal.
He recalled being on the road with the 6th Armored Division, part of a push to retake the French port city of Brest, when his column was strafed by five German planes.
Long-range artillery, rapid-fire machine guns, poison gas, flamethrowers, tanks, and airplanes that bombed and strafed introduced new kinds of terror and record levels of suffering and death.
The first, on Aug. 12, 2026, will start above Greenland, then strafe the west coast of Iceland and move along the Atlantic Ocean and over Spain.
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