crash-land
Americanverb (used with object)
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crash-lands,
present (3rd person singular)
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crash-landed,
past participle, past
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crash-landing
present participle
verb (used without object)
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crash-lands,
present (3rd person singular)
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crash-landed,
past participle, past
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crash-landing
present participle
verb
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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crash-landsimple
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crash-landssimple
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have crash-landedperfect
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has crash-landedperfect
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am crash-landingprogressive
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are crash-landingprogressive
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is crash-landingprogressive
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have been crash-landingperfect progressive
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has been crash-landingperfect progressive
Past
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crash-landedsimple
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had crash-landedperfect
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was crash-landingprogressive
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were crash-landingprogressive
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had been crash-landingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of crash-land
Example Sentences
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There’s a more than 1% chance the asteroid will make its way toward Earth and crash-land on the planet in December 2032.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2025
Another study showed that a group of frogs called pumpkin toadlets had become so small that the fluid-filled canals in their ears that confer balance no longer functioned properly, causing them to crash-land when jumping.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 6, 2024
Both characters are humanoids from faraway planets who crash-land on Earth.
From New York Times ● Aug. 4, 2023
The heavy-lift Il-76 cargo plane went down in the Ryazan region after having an engine problem that forced the crew of 10 to crash-land.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 24, 2022
He hatched a scheme to fly a small airplane to Tibet, crash-land it on the flanks of Everest, and proceed to the summit from there.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
When Arco crash-lands into it, however, having borrowed a cape and a diamond, Iris’s focus turns to helping him find his way home.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026
Morrow was the chief security officer on the Maginot, the Weyland-Yutani deep space research vessel that crash-lands in Prodigy territory and carries several lethal extraterrestrial species.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2025
The winds get stronger and the vampire drone crash-lands.
From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2025
At the beginning of “Encounter,” the sophomore feature from the British director Michael Pearce, something bright and blazing crash-lands in the night and a swarm of microorganisms appears to colonize an earthly host.
From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2021
A couple crash-lands on a Caribbean island and is rescued from paranoid politicians by a mystical fisherman-philosopher.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2019
The organic molecules are not definitive evidence of past life, the NASA-led team emphasised, because they could also have formed on the red planet or crash-landed on meteorites.
From Barron's ● Apr. 21, 2026
Then he purposely crash-landed into Ketron Island on Puget Sound.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
When Jimmy Stewart crash-landed in an alternative timeline, he was aghast at the economic disparity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2025
The two other prominent theories are that Earhart crash-landed on or near the then-Japanese Marshall Islands, or that she made it to Nikumaroro island near Kiribati and died a castaway there.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2025
It was as though she’d crash-landed on a distant planet, a smoking, ash-covered land.
From "I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980" by Lauren Tarshis
Data released by the flight-tracking website Flight Radar shows the plane zig-zagging up and down as it approached Aktau, before turning and crash-landing just kilometres from the airport.
From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2024
The win comes just four days after Russia’s crash-landing.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 21, 2024
Following a cold open teasing Stitch’s crash-landing on Kauai, a colorful title sequence set to “He Mele No Lilo” introduced moviegoers to Lilo and her island home for the first time with an elegant hula.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2022
Alan Tudyk plays Harry, masquerading as a small-town doctor - and a human - after crash-landing on Earth.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 25, 2021
“But you’ve been shot down on almost every one. You’re either ditching or crash-landing every time you go up.”
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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