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

Then, things get bumpy at Prodigy City when a huge spaceship crash-lands right in the middle of it. —Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 5 June 2025

Sure enough, mid-flight, a hole is blown in the fuselage, and Zsa-zsa, taking the controls, crash-lands the plane. —Richard Brody, New Yorker, 29 May 2025

Disney spent $100 million to produce and another $100 million on marketing efforts for the kid friendly adventure about a chaotic alien who crash-lands in Hawaii and gets adapted by a young girl and her older sister. —Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 25 May 2025

Sydney Chandler, daughter of Kyle Chandler, stars as a young woman who must respond when a spacecraft carrying the deadliest being in the galaxy crash-lands on terra firma. —Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 19 May 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