crash-land

verb

ˈkrash-ˈland 

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

Recent Examples on the Web

Sandberg baffles her by appearing to claim, falsely, that she’d been booked on an Asiana flight that crash-landed, escaping only because of a last-minute switch. —Michelle Goldberg, The Mercury News, 21 Mar. 2025

Listen to this article The Delta flight that crash-landed and flipped over at Toronto’s main airport last month descended fast enough to set off an emergency alert, according to a preliminary report released Thursday. —Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 20 Mar. 2025

Just last month, another Endeavor Air / Delta Airlines plane hit the news, when it crash-landed, flipped upside down, and caught alight at Toronto Pearson Airport in Canada after flying in from Minnesota. —Dan Perry, Newsweek, 18 Mar. 2025

However, the extraterrestrial enemies catch up to the ship and force it to crash-land on a mysterious planet called Mira. —PCMAG, 18 Mar. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1941, in the meaning defined at transitive sense

Rhymes for crash-land

• armband
• backhand
• bandstand
• baseband
• broadband
• command
• cropland
• demand
• disband
• dreamland
• expand
• farmhand

Kids Definition

crash-land

verb

ˈkrash-ˈland

: to land (an airplane or spacecraft) in an emergency usually with damage to it

crash landing noun