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strafe / strāf/ • v. [tr.] attack repeatedly with bombs or machine-gun fire from low-flying aircraft: military aircraft strafed the village.• n. an attack from low-flying aircraft.ORIGIN: early 20th cent.: humorous adaptation of the German World War I catchphrase Gott strafe England ‘may God punish England.’
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