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

But that seems reasonable for a chip maker that everyone knows from smartphones but seems to have crash-landed from another planet into the laptop market in just the past year. —Wendy Sheehan Donnell, PC Magazine, 29 Sep. 2025

Published through Amazon Original Stories, the novella series watches as a plane carrying a team of mercenaries crash-lands on a remote snowy summit. —Matt Grobar, Deadline, 19 Sep. 2025

Published by Amazon Original Stories for its Kindle platform last year, the story told of a group of mercenaries that crash-land on a remote snow summit. —Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 19 Sep. 2025

Meanwhile, Okarun and Jiji — ejected from the Buddha robot — crash-land in a nearby rice field. —Jordana Comiter, PEOPLE, 19 Sep. 2025

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