Synonyms of touch down

touch down

verb

as in to perch

to come to rest after descending from the air

the plane will touch down in about 30 minutes

Synonyms & Similar Words

• perch
• land
• light
• alight
• roost
• settle
• belly-land
• crash-land

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• take off
• rise
• arise
• blast off
• climb
• plane
• ascend
• wing
• fly
• float
• glide
• soar
• hang
• hover

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of touch down

Long before President Xi's plane touches down, someone will have decided where the two leaders would meet, who would host, and how the room would be arranged. — Leslie John, CNBC, 23 Sep. 2026

For its fifth installment, Vogue World is making an international voyage to Italy, touching down in Milan today, Tuesday, September 22—the first day of Milan Fashion Week. — Emma Specter, Vogue, 22 Sep. 2026

The liberated bundle then touches down somewhere else in the genome, where native DNA repair processes paste it in. — Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 21 Sep. 2026

The video was shared less than three weeks after the Sussexes touched down in Britain on August 26. — Rachel Burchfield, InStyle, 15 Sep. 2026