hard-land
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hard-land (third-person singular simple present hard-lands, present participle hard-landing, simple past and past participle hard-landed)
- (transitive, intransitive, astronautics, aviation) 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.
- Coordinate term: soft-land