BELLY-LAND Synonyms: 22 Similar and Opposite Words

belly-land

verb

Definition of belly-land

as in to touch down

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Recent Examples of belly-land Jeju Air's Boeing 737-800 burst into flames after it belly-landed at Muan International Airport in South Korea, killing all but two people on board. — Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 11 Jan. 2025 In the worst air disaster in South Korean history, 179 people were killed when a Boeing 737-800 belly-landed and skidded off the runway at Muan International Airport. — David Hodari, NBC News, 3 Jan. 2025 The plane, a Boeing 737-800, belly-landed on the runway at Muan International Airport in southwestern South Korea after an overnight flight, apparently with flaps and landing gear retracted. — Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 30 Dec. 2024

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If all goes to plan, Lanyue will touch down on the moon and then launch itself back to lunar orbit.

— Mike Wall, Space.com, 5 Nov. 2026
These tiny, fluffy shorebirds—from a bird family known as peeps—touch down here on their way from South and Central America to the Arctic.

— Alexandra Marvar, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of touch down

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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

Definition of crash-land

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The command link subsequently failed, and the drone drifted approximately 630 meters over a populated area before landing in a tree.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 8 Nov. 2026
The studio fussiness is why Fagen’s music would later go in and out of style—when raw sounds are in fashion, people tend to point out where his band’s singles landed on the Easy Listening charts.

— Mark Richardson, Pitchfork, 8 Nov. 2026

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