crater
/ˈkreɪtər/
verb
- To form a crater or become pitted with craters.
- The asteroid impact cratered the landscape for miles around.
- The ground cratered after the heavy artillery shelling.
- The surface of the metal cratered under the intense heat.
- To fail or collapse dramatically (informal, figurative).
- His hopes of winning cratered when he lost the final match.
- The economy cratered during the recession.
- The company's stock price cratered after the scandal.
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- A large, bowl-shaped hole in the ground, often caused by a meteorite, volcano, or explosion.
- The bomb blast created a deep crater in the road.
- The meteorite left a huge crater in the desert.
- We hiked to the rim of an ancient volcanic crater.
- A similar depression on the surface of the moon or a planet.
- Through the telescope, we could see a large crater near the moon's south pole.
- The moon's surface is covered with craters from asteroid impacts.
- Scientists studied a fresh crater on Mars using satellite images.
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