crash-landed

verb

past tense of crash-land
as in belly-landed

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  1. landed
  2. alighted
  3. perched
  4. lit
  5. roosted
  6. touched down
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  • The missile landed in the waters of North Korea's east coast.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 10 Aug. 2026
  • The glass fell over and the wine shot out with such force and landed squarely on the FACE of one of television’s greatest actresses —Rhea Seehorn.
    — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of landed
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  • BookTok’s preferences may skew toward familiar beats and blunt-force sensation, but in Harpman the hive mind has alighted on something more capacious and slippery.
    — Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026
  • According to the latest available rail passenger statistics, a grand total of 76 people have alighted or boarded at Shippea Hill in the previous 12 months.
    — Rob Crossan, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 July 2026
Definition of alighted
Verb
  • The red-brick Southeast Lighthouse, perched atop the Mohegan Bluffs, is all but deserted.
    — Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 9 Aug. 2026
  • The property is perched high on a corner parcel with privacy enhanced by mature trees.
    — David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 8 Aug. 2026
Definition of perched
Verb
  • Night lasts about two Earth weeks, and at the poles, only a few ridges stay lit for long stretches.
    — Wanjiku Chebet Kanjumba, The Conversation, 13 Aug. 2026
  • The MacBook Neo has lit a fire under PC developers to release competitive, low-cost models of their own, such as the most recent Dell XPS 13.
    — Jon Martindale, PC Magazine, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of lit
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  • Once the colony grew, the birds roosted in a derelict military barracks nearby, later returning to the pine forest when the facility was renovated.
    — Amarachi Orie, CNN Money, 14 May 2026
  • Two lovers embraced in a curtained room, while a white peacock roosted on a ledge.
    — Dennis Zhou, New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2025
Definition of roosted
Verb
  • On the same day, several more twisters touched down across the state, bringing Illinois’s tornado count for the year to 204.
    — Mary Randolph, Scientific American, 14 Aug. 2026
  • The National Weather Service has confirmed a total of six tornadoes touched down in the south and southwest suburbs on Tuesday, including an EF-1 tornado that touched down in the area of Homewood, Glenwood, and Thornton.
    — Sabrina Franza, CBS News, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of touched down
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