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soft-landed

soft-landed is the simple past and past participle of soft-land.

Meaning of soft-land

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive, transitive) To land (a vehicle or other payload) on the surface of a body in such a manner that it survives the landing mostly or entirely intact and is usable or able to operate, at least briefly, following touchdown.
    • The Spirit and Opportunity rovers were soft-landed on Mars in 2004.

Questions about soft-landed

What is soft-landed the simple past and past participle of?
Soft-landed is the simple past and past participle of soft-land.

Words near soft-landed in the dictionary

  1. soft-headed
  2. soft-hearted
  3. soft-heartedly
  4. soft-heartedness
  5. soft-land
  6. soft-landed
  7. soft-landing
  8. soft-lands
  9. soft-launch
  10. soft-launched
  11. soft-launches

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Adapted from Wiktionary: soft-landed (page history and authors); soft-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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