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hard-land

hard-land verb: to land (a vehicle or other payload) on the surface of a body in such a manner that it does not survive the landing mostly or entirely intact and is unusable or unable to operate, even briefly, following touchdown.

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive, transitive) To land (a vehicle or other payload) on the surface of a body in such a manner that it does not survive the landing mostly or entirely intact and is unusable or unable to operate, even briefly, following touchdown.

Forms of hard-land

third-person singular presenthard-lands
present participlehard-landing
past participlehard-landed
pasthard-landed
alternative formhard land

Words formed from hard-land

Questions about hard-land

What does hard-land mean?
Hard-land means to land (a vehicle or other payload) on the surface of a body in such a manner that it does not survive the landing mostly or entirely intact and is unusable or unable to operate, even briefly, following touchdown.
What part of speech is hard-land?
Hard-land is a verb.
What is the past tense of hard-land?
The past tense of hard-land is hard-landed.

Words near hard-land in the dictionary

  1. hard-heartedly
  2. hard-heartedness
  3. hard-heartednesses
  4. hard-hit
  5. hard-hitting
  6. hard-land
  7. hard-landed
  8. hard-landing
  9. hard-lands
  10. hard-launch
  11. hard-launched

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