hard land

A form of hard-land — To land (a vehicle or other payload) on the surface of a body in such a manner that it does not survive the landing mostly or entirely intact and is unusable or unable to operate, even briefly, following touchdown.

Meanings

verbhard land (third-person singular simple present hard lands, present participle hard landing, simple past and past participle hard landed)

present singular third person hard lands · participle present hard landing · participle past hard landed · past hard landed

  1. alternativeAlternative form of hard-land.
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