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hard-landing

hard-landing is the present participle of hard-land.

Meaning of hard-land

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.

Questions about hard-landing

What is hard-landing the present participle of?
Hard-landing is the present participle of hard-land.

Words near hard-landing in the dictionary

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

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