crash-land
verb
crash-landed; crash-landing; crash-lands
: to land (an airplane or spacecraft) under emergency conditions usually with damage to the craft
: to crash-land an airplane or spacecraft
crash landing
noun
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There’s a more than 1% chance the asteroid will make its way toward Earth and crash-land on the planet in December 2032.
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Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2025
Where to watch:Netflix ‘The Wild Robot’ A service robot named Roz (voiced by Lupita Nyong'o) crash-lands on an island full of animals, which is not what she was programmed to handle.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2025
Things go from routine to catastrophic when the team’s helicopter gets blown off course in a freak storm and crash-lands in the DPRK.
—Richard Kuipers, Variety, 31 Jan. 2025
Days later, a Jeju Air flight crash-landed in South Korea.
—Caitlin Babcock, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Jan. 2025
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Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2025
Where to watch:Netflix ‘The Wild Robot’ A service robot named Roz (voiced by Lupita Nyong'o) crash-lands on an island full of animals, which is not what she was programmed to handle.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2025
Things go from routine to catastrophic when the team’s helicopter gets blown off course in a freak storm and crash-lands in the DPRK.
—Richard Kuipers, Variety, 31 Jan. 2025
Days later, a Jeju Air flight crash-landed in South Korea.
—Caitlin Babcock, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Jan. 2025
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“Crash-land.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crash-land. Accessed 12 Feb. 2025.
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