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
They’re made out of some kind of astronaut plastic that could crash-land on Venus and not break.
From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor
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
Marc Turtletaub’s “Jules” falls squarely in the latter category — the titular alien who crash-lands in small-town Pennsylvania is a vegetarian, and eats apple slices given to him by his genial human host.
From New York Times ● Aug. 10, 2023
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
Planet of the Apes Charlton Heston and Roddy McDowall star in the classic 1968 sci-fi fable about an astronaut who crash-lands on a strange world where apes rule and humans are hunted.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 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
“I just fell out of the sky. I constructed a helicopter in midair, burst into flames halfway down, crash-landed, and barely survived. But by all means—let’s talk about your dining table!”
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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
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 Seattle Times ● Jan. 25, 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
The plane they were escorting, a transport aircraft with good navigation equipment, landed safely; but the three Yaks ended up crash-landing in the snow.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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