Crossword clues for strafe
strafe
- Dress down
- Rake with gunfire
- Shoot from above
- Fighter-plane action
- Attack, in a way
- Aircraft machine-gun attack
- Reprimand severely
- Bombard with criticism
- Attack from a plane
- Shoot machine guns
- Shoot from high above
- Shoot at from above
- Shoot at from a plane
- Pepper with fire from above
- Machine-gun while flying low
- Fly low and attack
- Fire on from above
- Attack, as a fighter plane
- Attack via fighter plane
- Attack from low-flying aircraft
- Attack by plane, in a way
- Reprimand viciously, in slang
- Attack from above
- Attack from the air with machine guns
- Bawl out, slangily
- Machine-gun by plane
- Rake with firepower
- Attack via plane, in a way
- Do a line of shots?
- Attack from a low-flying plane
- Subject to an air attack
- Attack with gunfire
- Pepper from above
- Censure savagely
- Attack with machine guns or cannon from a low-flying plane
- Shoot from the air, moving faster
- Fire on from the air
- Faster-working machine-gun
- British planes on time in southeast make low attack
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1915, "punish, attack, bomb heavily," picked up by British soldiers from German strafen "to punish" (from Proto-Germanic *stræf-), in slogan Gott strafe England "May God punish England," current in Germany c.1914-16 at the start of World War I. The word used for many kinds of attack at first; meaning "shoot up ground positions from low-flying aircraft" emerged as the main sense 1942. Related: Strafed; strafing.
Wiktionary
n. 1 An attack of machine-gun or cannon fire from a low-flying aircraft. 2 (context video games English) A sideways movement without turning. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To attack (ground targets) with automatic gunfire from a low-flying aircraft. 2 (context intransitive video games English) to sidestep; to move sideways without turning. A core mechanic of most first-person shooters.
WordNet
n. 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"
v. attack with machine guns or cannon fire from a low-flying plane; "civilians were strafed in an effort to force the country's surrender"
Wikipedia
Strafe the name of several fictional characters in the Transformers franchise. They are often members of the Technobots, an Autobot subgroup, and transform into aircraft. In Age of Extinction, Strafe later becomes a Dinobot, who transforms into a mechanical two-headed and two-tailed Pteranodon.
Strafe (stylized as STRAFE) is an upcoming 2017 first-person shooter video game in development by Pixel Titans and to be published by Devolver Digital. The game is an homage to 1990s first-person shooter video games, such as Doom and Quake, being advertized as to have "bleeding edge graphics and gameplay", citing the year 1996. It is scheduled for a release in early 2017.
Usage examples of "strafe".
I oriented them to make strafing runs from the Tacan building toward the radar equipment where I figured the enemy troops were.
Air Group Twenty with simulated attacks on the little task group, bombing and strafing towed sleds, while aboard ship search and fire-control radars tracked the mock attackers, CIC vectored fighters out to meet them, guns followed their movements according to automatic signals received from the computers below, and the new captain, Cato D.
And as the amphtracs began crawling over the barrier reef, 72 planes from escort carriers, including 12 Avengers armed with rockets, came down in vicious, hawklike swoops to strafe the beaches and the area just behind, the rockets making a sound like the crack of a gigantic whiplash.
Wenn gerade die edelsten Manner um den Nachruhmes willen gearbeitet haben, so soll die Geschichte ihre Belohnung sein, sie auch die Strafe fur die Schlechten.
He approached each strafing run as an opportunity to stun or trank one of the sculpers long enough to harvest a trophy.
From this base they marauded southward, hitting the Frelimo garrisons and strafing and raiding the railway line between Beira on the coast and Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe.
They left one of the ships stopped and smoking, and cut eastward across the top of the flat Chiba Peninsula at treetop height to Naruto, which the day strikes seemed to have put entirely out of commission, Katori where there was no damage but no activity either, and finally Choshi, where they strafed some parked Jacks and Zekes and ran into light, but highly accurate, AA which holed the tail of one of the marauding Hellcats.
For over a month they too flew troop support missions for the Marines, strafed landing barges, beached and at sea, searched the surrounding waters for submarines, scouted long pie-shaped sectors for approaching surface forces, and once hi a while were able to roll down hi the long precision dives they were trained for, to plant their big bombs on the decks of warships.
Spacehawks seemed to come in an endless string, raking the forest on all around the firebase, even strafing the western slope of the ridge.
The porters dived off the path, seeking the nearest cover, and the section leaders crouched ready to wave the captured Frehmo colors Sean had provided for each of them should the Hinds spot them and come in to strafe them.
A strafing rain roosted in the skies overhead, tearing through the sievelike forest canopy as it had all that day.
The choppers swooped closer, strafing the crater where the cabin had stood.
He knew exactly what he wanted: a hook to reach him and get him out of here and swing him to safety, and a jet-rotor with blasters and howlers, to strafe and plummet and hover.
They could strafe Tramontana with psychic lightnings, till the workers in the Tower were dead or mindless.
Only a long wooden pier which the Germanics strafed with their war planes.