noun. A bowl-shaped depression created by the activity of a volcano or geyser.

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noun. A bowl-shaped depression in a surface made by an explosion or the impact of a body, such as a meteoroid.

noun. A pit; a hollow.

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intransitive verb. To make craters in.

intransitive verb. To form a crater or craters.

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intransitive verb. To fall and crash violently from a great height.

intransitive verb. To fail utterly.

noun. A caldera.

noun. pl. crateres (krā˙-tē′ rēz). In classical antiquity, a large vessel or vase in which water was mixed with wine according to accepted formulas, and from which it was dipped out and served to the guests in the smaller pouring-vessels (oinochoe).

noun. In geology, the cup-shaped depression or cavity of a volcano, forming the orifice through which the erupted material finds its way to the surface, or has done so in former times if the volcano is at present extinct or dormant.

noun. Milit., a cavity formed by the explosion of a military mine.

noun. Any hollow made in the earth by subterranean forces.

noun. [capitalized] An ancient southern constellation south of Leo and Virgo. It is supposed to represent a vase with two handles and a base.

noun. In electricity, a hollow cavity formed in the positive carbon of an arclamp when continuous currents are used.

noun. The basinlike 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.

noun. The pit left by the explosion of a bomb, shell, or mine.

noun. A constellation of the southen hemisphere; -- called also the Cup.

noun. A hemispherical pit created by the impact of a meteorite or other object.

noun. The basinlike 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.

noun. The pit left by the explosion of a mine or bomb.

noun. Any large, roughly circular depression or hole.

verb. To collapse catastrophically; implode; hollow out; to become devastated or completely destroyed.

verb. To crash or fall.

noun. A term of endearment, a dote, a wretched thing.

noun. a faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near Hydra and Corvus

noun. a bowl-shaped geological formation at the top of a volcano

noun. a bowl-shaped depression formed by the impact of a meteorite or bomb

"But isn't there a part of you that wishes that the shiny bottom of the crater is actually the exposed hull of the planet-sized interstellar spacecraft that has been waiting inside it's rocky camouflage for millions of years for intelligent life to discover and re-activate it?"

bell crater  crater basin  crater of an are  explosion crater  

constellation  

Creator  Decatur  Equator  Lemaitre  Mercator  

basin  boulder  canyon  cave  cavity  

abysm  abyss  alveolation  alveolus  antrum  

cup  

cratered  cratering  craters