TOUCHING DOWN Synonyms: 22 Similar and Opposite Words

touching down

verb

present participle of touch down

as in perching

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 touching down Fifteen seconds after touching down, one of the pilots called for aborting the landing and the engine throttles were increased to a value consistent with go-around thrust, the NTSB said. — Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 10 Sep. 2026 Video of Sunday’s landing appears to show the Boeing 767 remaining airborne well down the runway before touching down. — David Fischer, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2026 Akiyama landed back on Earth on December 10, 1990, touching down on the steppe of Kazakhstan with cosmonauts Gennadi Manakov and Gennady Strekalov on board Soyuz TM-10. — Robert Pearlman, ArsTechnica, 2 Sep. 2026 Soar over the landscape by helicopter, touching down in some of the country’s most secluded locations, with not another soul in sight. — Gwen Nicol, Travel + Leisure, 29 Aug. 2026 Former President Barack Obama will be touching down in New York next month to headline an event alongside House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, reports say. — Amethyst Martinez, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026 Prior to touching down in Canada, Perry had been performing Down Under for an extended run. — Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 27 Aug. 2026 The switch was revealed when a Secret Service agent resembling Clinton stepped out of Air Force One upon touching down in Pakistan, while Clinton disembarked from the second aircraft. — Tiago Ventura, Time, 12 Aug. 2026 Video from his dash camera shows the aircraft gliding under a highway sign, missing it by mere feet, before touching down in the empty lanes. — Aaron Cooper, CNN Money, 4 Aug. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for touching down

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No club have spent more time perching on the highest rung of English football than Everton.

— George Caulkin, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2026
There was a time, the woman said, when rolling down the road meant perching on her husband’s back seat.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of perching

Verb

Space travel is taking off, but landing on the moon will be no easy feat.

— Devika Rao, TheWeek, 15 Sep. 2026
But our subsequent economic research showed that studying, going to good schools, and then landing a job working at a prestigious company was hardly the only way to get ahead.

— Eric Zwick, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2026