air attack

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   an attack by armed planes on a surface target

   Synonymsair raid

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Questions about air attack

What does air attack mean?

air attack means "an attack by armed planes on a surface target".

What is another word for air attack?

Close synonyms include air raid. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is air attack a common word?

air attack is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.