airstrike
airstrike is the alternative form of air strike.
Meaning of air strike
Noun
air strike (plural air strikes)
- An attack on a ground or naval target by one or more aircraft or missiles.
- 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.2025 June 26, Kasra Naji, “When Iran's supreme leader emerges from hiding he will find a very different nation”, in BBC
Verb
airstrike (third-person singular simple present airstrikes, present participle airstriking, simple past and past participle airstruck or airstriked)
Forms of airstrike
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | airstrikes |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | airstrikes |
| present participle | airstriking |
| past participle | airstruck |
| past | airstruck |
| past participle | airstriked |
| past | airstriked |
Origin of airstrike
From air + strike.
Words formed from airstrike
Questions about airstrike
- What does airstrike mean?
- Airstrike means to attack a ground target through the use of aircraft or missiles.
- What is airstrike the alternative form of?
- Airstrike is the alternative form of air strike.
- What part of speech is airstrike?
- Airstrike is a verb.
- What is the past tense of airstrike?
- The past tense of airstrike is airstruck.
Words near airstrike in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: airstrike (page history and authors); air strike (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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