crash-land
Americanverb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
verb
Other Word Forms
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Inflected Forms
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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
Why did a Nazi leader crash-land in Scotland?
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2022
Everyone agreed that only Masha’s plane had been on fire—surely the others had managed to crash-land safely somewhere?
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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
Charlton Heston stars as the captain of a four-person space crew that crash-lands on a planet that feels unfamiliar, where talking apes rule and humans, such as they are, have been enslaved.
From New York Times ● May 15, 2024
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
The US Coast Guard said the helicopter crash-landed about 100 yards off Kalalau beach.
From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2026
“Superman” crash-landed on a planet divided, closing out an era defined by crime, economic strife and the Vietnam War.
From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2025
Like I’d crash-landed on another planet and I was too far away from home to ever get back.
From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely
"Those 'exorbitant fees' are the crash-landing of a system that hasn't been planned or funded properly," he said.
From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2025
The win comes just four days after Russia’s crash-landing.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 21, 2024
"Hocus Pocus 2" is crash-landing on Disney+ on September 30 and it already has an advantage over the original which came out in theaters during the — blech — summer of 1993.
From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2022
During a long Space Ranger mission, Buzz takes an unplanned detour and winds up crash-landing his ship and a sizable raft of humanity on an unfriendly planet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2022
Should have been retested after the crash-landing, at least.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
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