Definitions for STRAFE
streɪf, strɑfstrafe

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. strafeverb

   an attack of machine-gun fire or cannon fire from a low flying airplane

   "the next morning they carried out a strafe of enemy airfields"

2. strafeverb

   attack with machine guns or cannon fire from a low-flying plane

   "civilians were strafed in an effort to force the country's surrender"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. strafenoun

   An attack of machine-gun or cannon fire from a low-flying aircraft.

2. strafenoun

   A sideways movement without turning.

3. strafeverb

   To attack (ground targets) with automatic gunfire from a low-flying aircraft.

4. strafeverb

   to sidestep; to move sideways without turning. A core mechanic of most first-person shooters.

5. Etymology: strafe, a conjugated form of strafen the British saw in German expressions like "Gott strafe England" ("God punish England") during the First World War.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. strafe

   Strafing is the military practice of attacking ground targets from low-flying aircraft using aircraft-mounted automatic weapons. Less commonly, the term is used by extension to describe high-speed firing runs by any land or naval craft such as fast boats, using smaller-caliber weapons and targeting stationary or slowly-moving targets.

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1. strafe

   Strafe refers to the act of continuously attacking a target by guns or bombs from low-flying aircraft. It also broadly refers to making repeated, damaging attacks on a target. It's commonly used in military context but can be also used metaphorically.

WikidataRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Strafe

   Strafe the name of two fictional characters in the various Transformers universes. They are both members of the Technobots, an Autobot subgroup, who turn into aircraft.

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1. strafe

   Song lyrics by strafe -- Explore a large variety of song lyrics performed by strafe on the Lyrics.com website.

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1. • Attack

Anagrams for STRAFE »

1. afters

2. farest

3. faster

4. farset

How to pronounce STRAFE?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say STRAFE in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of STRAFE in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of STRAFE in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of STRAFE in a Sentence

1. John Avalos:

   It’s about them crashing and hitting a building — a place where people live, it’s about the terror that they cause in people when they strafe neighborhoods. That’s something I hear about all the time when Blue Angels fly overhead.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=STRAFE
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Strafe
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strafe
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=STRAFE