land down

verb

To intercept (a missile) and bring it to ground before it reaches its target.

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Meanings

verbland down (third-person singular simple present lands down, present participle landing down, simple past and past participle landed down)

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

  1. transitivegovernmentTo intercept (a missile) and bring it to ground before it reaches its target.

    According to him [scil. Ilya Tumanov], the airfield’s air defense systems managed to intercept only seven of the missiles, emphasizing that this term refers only to an attempt to land them down, not the interception of the missiles.

    2024 November 25th, Olena Mukhina, “Ukraine reportedly strikes Russian military airfield in Kursk Oblast with ATACMS missiles for first time”, in Euromaidan Press
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APA

land down. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/land%20down

MLA

“land down.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/land%20down. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “land down,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/land%20down.

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