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CRASH LAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does crash land mean? 

CRASH LAND (verb)
  The verb CRASH LAND has 1 sense:

1. make an emergency landingplay

  Familiarity information: CRASH LAND used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CRASH LAND (verb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Make an emergency landing

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "crash land" is one way to...):

land; set down (reach or come to rest)

Domain category:

air; air travel; aviation (travel via aircraft)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "crash land"):

ditch (make an emergency landing on water)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP


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