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crater

see also: Crater

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crater (plural craters)

(astronomy) A hemispherical pit created by the impact of a meteorite or other object. [from 1831]
Synonyms: astrobleme
(geology) The basin-like opening or mouth of a volcano, through which the chief eruption comes; similarly, the mouth of a geyser, about which a cone of silica is often built up. [from 1610s]
(informal) The pit left by the explosion of a mine or bomb. [from 1839]
(informal, by extension) Any large, roughly circular depression or hole.
(historical) Alternative spelling of krater
- 1941, Louis MacNeice, The March of the 10,000:
  The people of those parts lived in underground houses - more of dug-outs - along with their goats and sheep and they had great craters full of wine, barley-wine, that they drank through reeds.

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crater (craters, present participle cratering; past and past participle cratered)

To form craters in a surface (of a planet or moon)
To collapse catastrophically; to become devastated or completely destroyed.
Synonyms: implode, hollow out
The economy is about to crater. -- Attributed by David Letterman to Sen. John McCain. NYTimes blog ↗
(snowboarding) To crash or fall.
He cratered into that snow bank about five seconds after his first lesson.

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crater (plural craters)

(Scotland, Irish) Alternative form of creature#English|creature.
- 1872, Thomas Hardy, Under the Greenwood Tree
  Then why not stop for fellow-craters -- going to thy own father's house too, as we be, and knowen us so well?

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Proper noun

(constellation) A dim spring constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a cup. It lies between the constellations Virgo and Hydra.

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