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crash-land Definition

crash·-land (kras̸hland)

transitive verb, intransitive verb

to bring (an airplane) down in a forced landing, esp. without use of the landing gear, so that some damage results

crash-land Idioms

crash landing

crash-land Usage Examples

Preposition: on

  • planet: Synopsis Dr. Cherijo Torin crash-lands on an ice planet whose population is on the verge of civil war.
  • moon: Abandoning Red Dwarf until Holly can pilot it around them, Starbug is hit by a flaming meteorite, crash-landing on an ice moon.
  • island: When Nelson crash-landed on a desert island in the South Pacific, he stumbled upon an old bottle containing a genie.

Modifying Another Word

just: Starbug cockpit --------------------------------------------- ] [ ALL present ] KOCHANSKI Able's pod just crash-landed.

Preposition: in

  • storm: Called away by her boss to do an emergency photo-shoot on another island, she and Ford crash-land in a storm.
  • flame: Television archives are full of upsetting footage of politicians trying to touch down chummily on to entertainment shows only to crash-land in flames.
  • middle: A super-cool modernist block of concrete and metal, it seems to have crash-landed in the middle of this conservative Carinthian village.
  • land: What was the name of the US rocketship that a group of people set off in before crash-landing in the Land of the Giants?