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land down

land down verb: to intercept (a missile) and bring it to ground before it reaches its target.

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To intercept (a missile) and bring it to ground before it reaches its target.
    • According to him [scil. Ilya Tumanov], the airfield’s air defense systems managed to intercept only seven of the missiles, emphasizing that this term refers only to an attempt to land them down, not the interception of the missiles.2024 November 25th, Olena Mukhina, “Ukraine reportedly strikes Russian military airfield in Kursk Oblast with ATACMS missiles for first time”, in Euromaidan Press

Forms of land down

third-person singular presentlands down
present participlelanding down
past participlelanded down
pastlanded down

Questions about land down

What does land down mean?
Land down means to intercept (a missile) and bring it to ground before it reaches its target.
What part of speech is land down?
Land down is a verb.
What is the past tense of land down?
The past tense of land down is landed down.

Words near land down in the dictionary

  1. land cruisers
  2. Land Day
  3. Land Dayak
  4. land degradation
  5. land diving
  6. land down
  7. land down under
  8. Land Dyak
  9. Land effect
  10. Land effects
  11. land force

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