Anagram Solver
Scrabble Word Finder & Unscrambler
Showing words for STRAFE using the English dictionary
6 Letter Words for Strafe
5 Letter Words for Strafe
4 Letter Words for Strafe
3 Letter Words for Strafe
Definitions for Strafe
[1] to attack (ground troops or installations) by airplanes with machine-gun fire.
[2] Slang . to reprimand viciously.
[3] a strafing attack.
[4] to machine-gun (troops, etc) from the air
[5] slang to punish harshly
[6] an act or instance of strafing
Words related to Strafe
bomb, plunder, rob, assault, bombard, blockade, harass, ransack, storm, loot, invade, overrun, swoop, raid, destroy, attack, blast, hound, besiege, pester
Words nearby Strafe
straddle the fence, straddle truck, stradella, stradivari, stradivarius, strafe, strafford, straggle, straggly, straight, straight a
Origin of Strafe
First recorded in 1910–15, strafe is from the German word strafen to punish
Other words from Strafe
straf·er , noun
un·strafed , adjective
Word origin for Strafe
C20: from German strafen to punish
Synonyms for Strafe
assault, blockade, bomb, bombard, harass, invade, loot, overrun, plunder, ransack, rob, storm, swoop, assail, breach, charge, despoil, devastate, forage, foray, harry, heat, inroad, maraud, pirate, rake, rifle, sack, sally, shell, slough, strike, sweep, torpedo, waste, break in, descend on, fall upon, fire on, knock off, knock over, lean against, lean on, march on, sally forth, spoliate, tip over