crash-land

verb

ˈkrash-ˈland 

crash-landed; crash-landing; crash-lands

transitive verb

: to land (an airplane or spacecraft) under emergency conditions usually with damage to the craft

intransitive verb

: to crash-land an airplane or spacecraft

crash landing noun

Examples of crash-land in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

In Exoplanet, written by Benjamin Percy and executive produced by Andy Weir, author of The Martian and Project Hail Mary, Mackie, DeBose and Leguizamo play astronauts who crash-land on the same hostile planet hundreds of years apart. — Esther Lian, PEOPLE, 2 Nov. 2026

Man and canine crash-land in the wild, where survival will depend on their resourcefulness. — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2026

It’s gotten there by largely avoiding the trap of remaking the original story, in which an astronaut (Heston) crash-lands on a mysterious world in which apes are the dominant species and humans are subjugated, nonverbal creatures. — Jesse Hassenger, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Sep. 2026

Enter a rambunctious alien, who crash-lands on Earth just when Lilo needs him the most. — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 15 Aug. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1941, in the meaning defined at transitive sense

Rhymes for crash-land

• armband
• backhand
• bandstand
• baseband
• broadband
• command
• cropland
• demand
• disband
• dreamland
• expand
• farmhand

Kids Definition

crash-land

verb

ˈkrash-ˈland

: to land (an airplane or spacecraft) in an emergency usually with damage to it

crash landing noun