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strafe

(strāf)
tr.v. strafed, straf·ing, strafes
To attack (ground troops, for example) with a machine gun or cannon from a low-flying aircraft.
n.
An attack of machine-gun or cannon fire from a low-flying aircraft.
[From German (Gott) strafe (England), (God) punish (England), a common World War I slogan, from strafen, to punish, from Middle High German strāfen, to contest, admonish.]
straf′er n.
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strafing

(ˈstreɪfɪŋ; ˈstrɑːfɪŋ)
n
(Military) military an act or instance of strafing
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strafing

The delivery of automatic weapons fire by aircraft on ground targets.
Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.
Translations

strafing

[ˈstrɑːfɪŋ] N → ametrallamiento m
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
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I sprang from the pilot-house and followed, not to be left out in the cold when it came to strafing the boches.
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The picture was taken from the deck of guidedmissile destroyer USS Donald Cook in the Baltic Sea during two days of simulated strafing runs by the planes, believed to have been unarmed.
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