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strafe
has definitions from the field of military
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[ verb ] (military) use explosives on
Examples "The enemy has been shelling us all day" Used in print (87th Congress, 1st Session. Congressional Record....)Somehow , the pictures and stories of Soviet T-34 tanks on Cuban beaches and Russian Mig jet fighters strafing rebel troops has brought_home to all_of us the stark , blunt truth of what it means to have a Russian military base 90 miles away from home . |
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[ noun ] (military) an attack of machine-gun fire or cannon fire from a low flying airplane
Examples "the next morning they carried out a strafe of enemy airfields" Related terms |
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