Noun

• S: (n) strafe (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"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) attack, onslaught, onset, onrush ((military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons)) "the attack began at dawn"
• derivationally related form

Verb

• S: (v) strafe (attack with machine guns or cannon fire from a low-flying plane) "civilians were strafed in an effort to force the country's surrender"