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# How to pronounce "strafed" in English

## Pronunciation & Phonetics

- **IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)**: `/stræfɛd/`
- **Syllable Breakdown**: **stra·fed**
- **Parts of Speech**: verb
- **VERB**: simple past and past participle of strafe

## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (7 Video Clips)

Listen to native speakers pronounce "strafed" in real conversation:

### Example 1
> "feet down radioactive leech Fields buried shells landfills and dirt covered Mounds hungry ghosts hidden from the prying eyes hungry ghosts a heavy heavy metal sound or whimpering as a child strafed by the whip of hungry ghosts a line of conifers over there a ligament or tendon pulls hard in the bone old"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 19:09](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=howywiEgJFU&t=1149s)

### Example 2
> "I haven't been shot at in six years, and I was woken up very abruptly this morning by a nightmare that I was being strafed by aircraft, six years later. I've never even been strafed by aircraft, and I was having nightmares about it. Time slows down. You get this weird tunnel vision."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 5:33](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGZMSmcuiXM&t=333s)

### Example 3
> "and for all so her family had some serious scrapes you know they were strafed by um aircraft flying"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 11:44](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVzHP9g3Jn4&t=704s)

### Example 4
> "troops all lined up on the beach there like the like like the movie being strafed byy planes yeah all that you"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 10:02](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is4nKJVbc3U&t=602s)

### Example 5
> "tried to uh tell the Wagner Mercer is to stand down he looked frightened and to me as to quite a few intelligence analysts I spoke to here in Vilnius it looked a bit like a hostage video then he disappeared from sight although one has to say it's his air force that actually strafed that bombarded the Wagner mercenaries then suddenly we hear that he has been arrested and according"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 2:49](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMVNbajPtFY&t=169s)

### Example 6
> "I was very scared beforehand and incredibly scared afterwards, and that fear that comes afterwards can last years. I haven't been shot at in six years, and I was woken up very abruptly this morning by a nightmare that I was being strafed by aircraft, six years later. I've never even been strafed by aircraft, and I was having nightmares about it."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 5:25](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGZMSmcuiXM&t=325s)

### Example 7
> "tanks there. The Guernica, the most famous painting of the period of Picasso--you should visit Guernica some time--came when they strafed and bombed the"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 44:45](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4tKz83YpBM&t=2685s)


## Related Words & Synonyms

- **Nearby Vocabulary**: [staffed](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/staffed), [staged](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/staged), [strenuous](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/strenuous), [strategy](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/strategy), [strategic](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/strategic), [strategically](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/strategically), [strategist](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/strategist), [structure](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/structure)

## Frequently Asked Questions

### How do you pronounce "strafed" correctly?
"strafed" is pronounced `/stræfɛd/`. Syllable breakdown: **stra·fed**.

### What does "strafed" mean in context?
simple past and past participle of strafe

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