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strafe [strāf]
(ordnance)
To rake a body of troops or other persons with gunfire or rocket fire at close range and from a flying aircraft, or to attack a roadway, railyard, factory, or other installation with bullets, projectiles, or rockets fired from a low firing airplane.


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The bad news for Hannibal's mother is that she dies in the movie's opening minutes, along with Hannibal's father and assorted other loved ones when a Nazi warplane strafes them.
The first meeting garners a small handful of the bereaved and troubled, including a mysterious and unkempt woman in a black shawl, who discloses she has spent thirty-five years in a mental hospital, and strafes the others around the table with an aggressive and intimidating glare.
On the modern battlefield, an A-10 Thunderbolt 30-mm high-angle strafe attack probably provides the best opportunity for a fixed-wing attack pilot to visually identify a tactical target.
 
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