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crater

Pronunciation: /ˈkɹeɪ.tə(ɹ)/

The English word “crater” has 9 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A hemispherical pit created by the impact of a meteorite or other object.
  2. 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.
  3. The pit left by the explosion of a mine or bomb.
  4. Any large, roughly circular depression or hole.
  5. A worker who packs things in crates.

verb

  1. To form craters in a surface.
  2. To collapse catastrophically; to become devastated or completely destroyed.
  3. To crash or fall.
  4. To die from fall damage.

Etymology

First coined 1613, from Latin crātēr (“basin”), from Ancient Greek κρᾱτήρ (krātḗr, “mixing-bowl, wassail-bowl”).

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