crash-land
verb
crash-landed; crash-landing; crash-lands
: to land (an airplane or spacecraft) under emergency conditions usually with damage to the craft
: to crash-land an airplane or spacecraft
crash landing
noun
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Then, on May 10, 1941, Rudolf Hess crash-landed in Scotland to broker a peace between the Third Reich and the British Empire.
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Angelica Frey, JSTOR Daily, 8 Oct. 2025
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
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Angelica Frey, JSTOR Daily, 8 Oct. 2025
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
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“Crash-land.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crash-land. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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