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crash-land

crash-land is the alternative form of crash land.

Meaning of crash land

Verb

crash land (third-person singular simple present crash lands, present participle crash landing, simple past and past participle crash landed)

  1. (intransitive) To land an aircraft or spacecraft in an emergency, either in an inappropriate place or under dangerous conditions, usually resulting in damage to the craft and the possibility of loss of life.

Forms of crash-land

third-person singular presentcrash-lands
present participlecrash-landing
past participlecrash-landed
pastcrash-landed

Questions about crash-land

What is crash-land the alternative form of?
Crash-land is the alternative form of crash land.

Words near crash-land in the dictionary

  1. crash-diving
  2. crash-dove
  3. crash-helmet
  4. crash-helmets
  5. crash-hot
  6. crash-land
  7. crash-landed
  8. crash-landing
  9. crash-landings
  10. crash-lands
  11. crash-proof

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crash-land (page history and authors); crash land (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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