cratered
crater
verb
uk /ˈkreɪ.tər/ us /ˈkreɪ.t̬ɚ/

craterverb (FORM HOLE)

[ T ]
to make one or more round holes in the surface of something:
They bombed the runway in order to crater it and make it unusable.
The surface has been cratered by asteroid impacts.
[ I ]
to develop one or more round holes in the surface:
The streets had started to crack and crater.
Abandoned mine shafts are everywhere, puncturing mountains and cratering the desert.
The lawn was cratered but survived.
The bullet pierced the outer case, cracked through the glass screen and cratered the left side of the keyboard.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Holes, hollows and dips
anti-crack
aperture
blistered
chink
cranny
cratering
gauge
hollow
interstice
leak
leaky
micropore
microporosity
microporous
piercing
pinprick
shaft
spyhole
thumbhole
void

craterverb (FALL)

[ I ]mainly US
(of a price, market, business, etc.) to fall or fail suddenly:
If people grew too much corn, the surplus would cause the price to crater.
The financial crisis circled the globe, sending financial markets cratering.

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to become smaller or less
decreaseThe tests show that the tumour has decreased in size since we started treatment.
lessenA healthy diet lessens your risk for cardiovascular disease.
lowerThey've just lowered the age at which you can join.
reduceThey've just reduced the price.
bring downThey are bringing down their prices.
dropStock prices dropped today after the company's announcement.
[ T ]mainly US
to cause a price, market, business, etc. to fall or fail suddenly:
How are they going to afford the interest payments without cratering the economy?
The ill effects of the financial crisis caused Republicans' polling numbers to crater in many states.
You could see the market starting to crater.
Movies were already cratering before the economy turned down.
She keeps nagging him to spend more time with her and their daughter, even as his business is cratering.
While the sector's woes aren't enough to crater the shaky US economy, it could slow it.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Price decreases
bargain
bear market
bearishly
closeout
concessional
couponer
couponing
debase
deflate
depreciate
devalue
drop off
freeze
knock off (something)
knock someone down
mark something down
nosedive
overdiscount
post-devaluation
spiral

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Failing and doing badly

crater | American Dictionary

crater
noun[ C ]
us/ˈkreɪ·t̬ər/
earth science
a large hole in the top of a volcano (= mountain made from liquid rock)
A crater is also a large hole made by something hitting the ground with force:
The meteorite left a crater six feet deep.

Examples of crater

crater
A 'crater' of finite width was thereby obtained.
Second, the transverse distribution of laser intensity and light pressure over a focus of finite size leads to crater formation, destroying the planar target geometry.
For femtosecond pulses, the crater profiles were without convexity formation.
This, combined with the young age of the oceanic crust, explains why few craters are likely to be found in the oceans.
There is a strong tendency for larger craters to occur within them.
The inner crater in the crystalline basement is often the only part of the concentric structure that is preserved or recognizable.
Another scenario would be that the organic component was carried and deposited by hydrothermal fluids circulating in the crater after impact.
An enlarged view of those spines (fig. 6 inset) show that they are located in crater-like holes in the tegument.
The amount of collapse is dependent on the size of the crater, the gravity constant and the target material.
To the lower right, stippled flecks form a panorama of hills and craters.
Our conclusions could be useful for future searching programs, which look for signs of ancient life forms in crater lakes.
At the positive focal point position, the craters have a semitoroidal shape, while at the negative position they resemble a hemisphere.
Studies of the laser-created craters produced on solid surfaces at various experimental conditions.
The homogenous, flat outer crater zone differs from morphological features obtained by slumping or by downfaulting of a terraced zone.
The crater creation in single massive targets and in double ones was investigated.
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Collocations withcrater

crater

These are words often used in combination with crater.

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impact crater
The primary heat source of a hydrothermal system associated with a complex impactcrater is likely to be shock-emplaced heat.
large crater
Yet, there is no match for his large crater.
lunar crater
A lunarcrater and the asteroid 1788 were also named after him.
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