crash-land

verb

crash-landed; crash-landing; crash-lands

transitive verb

: to land (an airplane or spacecraft) under emergency conditions usually with damage to the craft

intransitive verb

: to crash-land an airplane or spacecraft
crash landing noun

Examples of crash-land in a Sentence

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Within four months of the album’s release, a resounding answer crash-landed in the form of an out-of-nowhere, cycle-breaking single that smashed through Ariana’s own release pattern and her audience’s presuppositions. Stephen Daw, Billboard, 17 Oct. 2024 See what the show's cast — both human and alien — have been up to since the series premiered 25 years ago Comments Twenty-five years ago today, the series premiere of Roswell crash-landed on the WB, becoming an early 2000s cult hit. John Russell, People.com, 6 Oct. 2024 In the first, the girls crash-land in a vast wilderness on their way to a soccer tournament. Erik Kain, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024 In Alien: Earth, which hits Hulu in 2025, when a mysterious space vessel crash-lands on Earth, a young woman (Sydney Chandler) and a ragtag group of tactical soldiers make a fateful discovery that puts them face-to-face with the planet’s greatest threat. Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 15 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for crash-land 

Word History

First Known Use

1941, in the meaning defined at transitive sense

Time Traveler
The first known use of crash-land was in 1941

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“Crash-land.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crash-land. Accessed 13 Nov. 2024.

Kids Definition

crash-land

verb
ˈkrash-ˈland
: to land (an airplane or spacecraft) in an emergency usually with damage to it
crash landing noun

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