TOUCHED DOWN Synonyms: 25 Similar and Opposite Words

touched down

verb

past tense of touch down

as in perched

to come to rest after descending from the air the plane will touch down in about 30 minutes

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Recent Examples of touched down Two tornadoes touched down in Queens and Long Island after forming over the water, according to the National Weather Service. — Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 21 Aug. 2026 Photos and video shared on social media show debris thrown in the air and pummeling rain as a possible tornado touched down at Atlantic Beach on Long Island's outer barrier. — CBS News, 21 Aug. 2026 On a July afternoon in 2024, a private jet carrying three men from Mexico touched down at a small airport a few miles west of El Paso. — Senior Editor, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2026 Patrick Renna touched down in Iowa last week to attend the MLB’s Field of Dreams game in Dyersville, featuring the Philadelphia Phillies and the Minnesota Twins. — Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 17 Aug. 2026 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 back-to-back storms are the latest in an unusually volatile year that has already brought a record-breaking number of tornadoes to Illinois, including an EF-0 tornado that touched down briefly in Naperville on June 11. — Carolyn Stein, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2026 Three of the tornadoes touched down in the southwest suburbs of Chicago, uprooting trees, damaging homes and knocking out power to numerous utility customers. — Michelle Simmons, ABC News, 12 Aug. 2026 Two tornadoes touched down just south of Chicago, the National Weather Service said Tuesday night. — Laura Bargfeld, Fortune, 12 Aug. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for touched down

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The travelling supporters were perched behind the goal for a perfect view of the wonder strike, and Ballard made a beeline straight towards them, booting the advertising hoarding for good measure.

— Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2026
Davis told the Las Vegas detective that after the shooting, his group parked the Cadillac behind the Carriage House hotel and perched the gun on the tire on the vehicle’s front passenger side.

— Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of perched

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Gotham midfielder Rose Lavelle landed hard with the back of her head hitting the ground in the 31st minute.

— Phuoc Nguyen, Chicago Tribune, 24 Aug. 2026
The first deportation flight since TPS ended landed in Haiti last week with more than 160 passengers onboard, and authorities have said more flights are expected.

— Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN Money, 23 Aug. 2026