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 The terrain is so inaccessible that the team could see where exactly the tornado touched down. — Joe Marusak july 31, Charlotte Observer, 31 July 2026 The National Weather Service has confirmed that a tornado touched down in Georgia's Pickens County during Tuesday night's storms. — Dan Raby, CBS News, 30 July 2026 A little more than a minute later, and before the Delta flight touched down, American Airlines Flight 3161 was cleared to take off on intersecting runway 27, the report said. — Aaron Cooper, CNN Money, 23 July 2026 The National Weather Service office in Wilmington, which also covers counties in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana, will send crews out July 22 to survey damage from the Tuesday storms to determine if tornadoes touched down in those areas. — Cameron Knight, Cincinnati Enquirer, 21 July 2026 The dry spell was broken in July 1997, when the agency's Pathfinder lander touched down in Chryse Planitia, about 530 miles (850 kilometers) from Viking 1. — Mike Wall, Space.com, 20 July 2026 On July 20, 1976, Viking 1—the first successful Mars lander in history—touched down on the red planet. — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 20 July 2026 Skipper and scrumhalf Lucu darted over after a strong run into contact from his hooker Lamothe and touched down on the half-hour to score France’s fourth try, securing a bonus competition point. — ABC News, 18 July 2026 The National Weather Service said a tornado touched down in the northwestern part of San Antonio near Interstate 10. — Jesse Bedayn, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for touched down

Verb

Residents will encounter him perched on the air conditioner just outside their apartment, staring in.

— Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 1 Aug. 2026
Figures depicting the Pink Panther, Spider Man and the Minions have perched or crawled atop the Dome.

— Mandalit del Barco, NPR, 31 July 2026

Definition of perched

Verb

Penta hit a Mexican Destroyer on Chad Gable and the two landed awkwardly.

— Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 3 Aug. 2026
As the sport continues to process Skubal joining the Dodgers in a late Saturday trade, reactions from rival executives have landed somewhere between resignation and frustration.

— Andy McCullough, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2026