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crash-lands

  • present tense form
    of crash-land (3rd person singular).
    crash-land
    verb (used with object)
    to land (an aircraft), under circumstances in which a normal landing is impossible, in such a way that damage to the aircraft is unavoidable.

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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

Crespin, his wife and a doctor crash-lands in the small Near East nation of Rukh.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2020