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- Dictionarystrafe/streɪf/
verb
- 1. attack repeatedly with bombs or machine-gun fire from low-flying aircraft: "military aircraft strafed the village"
noun
- 1. an attack from low-flying aircraft: "next morning they were to carry out a strafe of airfields in southern Greece"
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The meaning of STRAFE is to rake (ground troops, an airfield, etc.) with fire at close range and especially with machine-gun fire from low-flying aircraft. How to use strafe in a sentence.
STRAFE definition: 1. to attack an enemy by shooting from aircraft that are flying low in the sky 2. to attack an…. Learn more.
STRAFE meaning: 1. to attack an enemy by shooting from aircraft that are flying low in the sky 2. to attack an…. Learn more.
Strafe definition: to attack (ground troops or installations) by airplanes with machine-gun fire.. See examples of STRAFE used in a sentence.
To strafe is to attack from above with bullets or bombs. During World War I, planes fitted with machine guns flew low so they could strafe targets below. Think of a quick-firing machine gun or rapid series of bombs to understand the military verb strafe.
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 dived for cover. [VERB noun] Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers.
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. 1915. What is that expression the Germans use about us? ‘God strafe them.’. Well, we hope He won't. Scotsman 25 June 7/2. 1915. I never saw a billet like this for flies...
