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

Hulu 05 of 10 Planet of the Apes (1968) The original Planet of the Apes movie’s setup is eerily simple: An astronaut and his crew crash-land on a mysterious planet and travel over 2,000 years into the future. —Matt Cabral, EW.com, 23 Feb. 2025

Just this month, the collision of an American Airlines plane and a US Army helicopter killed 67 people in Washington, DC, and a Delta Airlines flight crash-landed in Toronto. —Ramishah Maruf, CNN, 22 Feb. 2025

The plane, which was arriving from Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, crash-landed, burst into flames and turned upside down on the tarmac. —Joe Kottke, NBC News, 22 Feb. 2025

Based on preliminary information, the Falcon 9 rocket part was dragged out of orbit in an uncontrolled manner, which is likely why the vehicle appeared to reenter Earth’s atmosphere over Europe and crash-land this week. —Jackie Wattles, CNN, 21 Feb. 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