crash-land
Americanverb (used with object)
-
crash-lands,
present (3rd person singular)
-
crash-landed,
past participle, past
-
crash-landing
present participle
verb (used without object)
-
crash-lands,
present (3rd person singular)
-
crash-landed,
past participle, past
-
crash-landing
present participle
verb
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
-
crash-landsimple
-
crash-landssimple
-
have crash-landedperfect
-
has crash-landedperfect
-
am crash-landingprogressive
-
are crash-landingprogressive
-
is crash-landingprogressive
-
have been crash-landingperfect progressive
-
has been crash-landingperfect progressive
Past
-
crash-landedsimple
-
had crash-landedperfect
-
was crash-landingprogressive
-
were crash-landingprogressive
-
had been crash-landingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of crash-land
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
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
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’s prayers are seemingly answered when an object crash-lands to Earth carrying a life-form that looks like a baby boy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2019
He headed toward a schoolyard but when he spotted kids, he swerved and crash-landed into a tree.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
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
A 70-year-old man has died after a light aeroplane crash-landed at an airfield near Sherburn in Elmet.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2025
Luke would give anything to go back to pretending to fly missions, when they crash-landed behind enemy lines.
From "We'll Fly Away" by Bryan Bliss
There were 76 passengers and four crew on the flight, which had travelled from the US city of Minneapolis before making its crash-landing in Canada.
From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2025
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
Furious winds have stoked the flames and forced the crash-landing of a firefighting helicopter.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 16, 2021
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
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
