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 coming campaign will focus not only on events now in play and those we can anticipate but also those that crash-land out of the blue in the coming months.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 7, 2021
With just enough fuel left to get them to the ground, Valentina and Polina managed to crash-land the Rodina in one piece.
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
The winds get stronger and the vampire drone crash-lands.
From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2025
The film tells the story of a young Hawaiian girl named Lilo whose life is upended when an alien fugitive, Stitch, crash-lands nearby.
From New York Times ● Jun. 21, 2022
Forty-five years later another alien from Newton's home planet crash-lands on Earth, this time in New Mexico.
From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2022
Sharkwrecked: Crash Landing The shark survival team purposely crash-lands off the remote Pacific island of Palau, where it must face against sharks as it struggles to reach shore.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 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
“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
Upon arriving at his warehouse in the quaint Polish village of Komorniki, Adam Burucki discovered that a massive chunk of charred rocket debris had crash-landed on his property.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2025
It was going to take a 253,665-mile flight before it crash-landed onto the moon.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
"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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