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splash down

To crash or land in a body of water. The actress's private seaplane splashed down on the lake outside of the film festival, and she exited the aircraft in a stunning sequin dress. Officials are scrambling to determine where the astronaut's capsule splashed down as they lost touch with it just before re-entry.

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splash down

[for a space capsule] to land in the water. The capsule splashed down very close to the pickup ship.

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splash down

Land in water, as in The spacecraft splashed down within a few hundred yards of the pickup point. The splash in this idiom alludes to the impact of a solid body on water. [c. 1960]

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splash down

To land in water. Used of a spacecraft or missile: The spacecraft splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean.

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One by one they splash down, disappear for a moment and then pop back up to the surface.

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Ross McMillan burst through the visitors' line thanks to a bullet Fotuali'i pass and the scrum-half kicked for Tom Collins to splash down.

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TWO British pilots planning to break the world altitude record for a manned balloon flight were today at sea level rehearsing recovery procedures after splash down.

Pilots go for balloon space record

The most adventurous kids splash down into the shark cage for a closer look.

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The car hurtles up a 170ft slope so fast I'm sure that at the top it will take off and splash down in the Arabian Gulf, then it plunges down so fast I feared my eyeballs were going to pop out of my earholes.

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But we'd rather splash down on the Wedge, a watery free-fall that sends riders over the edge of a 50-foot slope set 100 feet above Raging Waters.

THE PLACES TO BE THIS SUMMER; WHEN FORCE LOSES GRIP, THEME PARKS STAND READY TO AMUSE AND ENTERTAIN

Reed and a few other engineers felt there should be a more dignified way to land a spaceship than having to splash down in the ocean.

SPACESHIP DESIGN WINGLESS, PILOTLESS : NEW GENERATION OF CRAFT COULD LOWER SPACE COSTS

2 on Jupiter, will journey to St Andrews today and then splash down yesterday.

Lee goes into orbit; RESULT!

Norman Schwarzkopf, front center, and ``Jurassic Park'' film star Jeff Goldblum, behind and right, splash down at ride's end.