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crash land

crash land verb: 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.

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
alternative formcrashland
alternative formcrash-land

Origin of crash land

Back-formation from crash landing.

Questions about crash land

What does crash land mean?
Crash land means 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.
What part of speech is crash land?
Crash land is a verb.
What is the past tense of crash land?
The past tense of crash land is crash landed.

Words near crash land in the dictionary

  1. crash gearboxes
  2. crash helmet
  3. crash helmets
  4. crash hot
  5. crash in
  6. crash land
  7. crash landed
  8. crash landing
  9. crash landings
  10. crash lands
  11. crash out

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