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crash-land definitions

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Merriam Webster's

verb Date: 1941 transitive verb to land (an airplane or spacecraft) under emergency conditions usually with damage to the craft intransitive verb to crash-land an airplane or spacecraft • crash landing noun

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

also crash land(crash-lands, crash-landing, crash-landed) If a pilot crash-lands an aircraft, or if it crash-lands, it lands more quickly and less safely than usual, for example when there is something wrong with the aircraft, and it cannot land normally. He arrives in his biplane and crash lands it in a tree... A light aircraft crash-landed on a putting green yesterday. VERB: V n, V • crash-landing (crash-landings) His plane made a crash-landing during a sandstorm yesterday. N-COUNT