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say it: strayf
strafe is a noun and verb meaning "an attack of machine-gun fire or cannon fire from a low flying airplane". It carries 2 recorded senses.
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”
attack with machine guns or cannon fire from a low-flying plane
“civilians were strafed in an effort to force the country's surrender”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for strafe come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.