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air strike (plural air strikes)

1. (military) An attack on a ground or naval target by one or more aircraft or missiles.
   • 2025 June 26, Kasra Naji, “When Iran's supreme leader emerges from hiding he will find a very different nation”, in BBC‎:

     Iran's known nuclear facilities that earned the country nearly two decades of US and international sanctions, with an estimated cost of hundreds of billions of dollars, are now damaged from the air strikes, although the full extent of this has been hard to assess.

Further reading

• “air strike”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

語源

From air +‎ strike.

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airstrike (plural airstrikes)

1. Alternative form of air strike
   • 2019 June 26, Frederik Pleitgen and Eliza Mackintosh, “US is ‘not in a position to obliterate Iran,’ Iranian foreign minister says”, in CNN‎:

     The US President himself accused Iran of being behind the provocation, threatening airstrikes on Iran last week – but calling them off just minutes before they were to begin.

   • 2025 April 27, Oren Liebermann, Charbel Mallo, Michael Rios, Eyad Kourdi and Dana Karni, “Israeli airstrike rocks southern Beirut after military issues evacuation warning”, in CNN‎:

     An Israeli airstrike rocked southern Beirut on Sunday soon after the military issued an evacuation warning for the Lebanese capital.

動詞

airstrike (third-person singular simple present airstrikes, present participle airstriking, simple past and past participle airstruck or airstriked)

1. To attack a ground target through the use of aircraft or missiles.

派生語

Further reading

• airstrike, air strike at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.