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Strafe   /streɪf/   Listen
Strafe

verb
1.
Attack with machine guns or cannon fire from a low-flying plane.



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"Strafe" Quotes from Famous Books



... the prominent roads within the German lines were in plain sight from our position and, while the artillery devoted considerable attention to harassing the enemy, we were not sufficiently supplied with ammunition at that time to strafe them as was desirable. This was especially true of several "dumps," which is the colloquial word designating the points where the wagons and motor transports deposit ammunition, food and other trench stores and whence they are carried up to the front line by the men. Thus an ammunition dump means ...
— The Emma Gees • Herbert Wes McBride
... remarks that Germany had gone mad thinking of her wrongs. That jealousy and fear are in general the substratum of national hatred is deeply impressed upon one in studying the psychology of Germany. All the hate motive of the late war might well be found in Germany's prayer "Gott strafe England." Germany appealed to God to punish England, of course, because Germany herself could not. Both the appeal and the hatred are reactions of fear and a sense of impotence. Germany hated England because England was secure ...
— The Psychology of Nations - A Contribution to the Philosophy of History • G.E. Partridge


Words linked to "Strafe" :   assail, onset, attack, strafer, onrush, onslaught


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