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strafe

verb
🔊/streɪf/, 🔊/strɑːf/
🔊/streɪf/
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they strafe
🔊/streɪf/, 🔊/strɑːf/
🔊/streɪf/
he / she / it strafes
🔊/streɪfs/, 🔊/strɑːfs/
🔊/streɪfs/
past simple strafed
🔊/streɪft/, 🔊/strɑːft/
🔊/streɪft/
past participle strafed
🔊/streɪft/, 🔊/strɑːft/
🔊/streɪft/
-ing form strafing
🔊/ˈstreɪfɪŋ/, 🔊/ˈstrɑːfɪŋ/
🔊/ˈstreɪfɪŋ/
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  1. strafe something to attack a place with bullets or bombs from an aircraft flying low低空扫射（或轰炸）
    • Military aircraft strafed the village.军机从低空扫射这个村庄。
    • The big guy with the big gun strafed the place.拥有大枪的大个子横扫了这个地方。
    Topics War and conflictc2
    Word Originearly 20th cent.: humorous adaptation of the German First World War catchphrase Gott strafe England ‘may God punish England’.