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crater Meaning, Definition, Pronunciation, Grammar & Synonyms❤️

0 the round hole at the top of a volcano, or a hole in the ground similar to this:
- the huge crater of Vesuvius
- a bomb crater
- With a good telescope, you can see craters on the moon.
1 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.
- The streets had started to crack and crater.
2 (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.
- How are they going to afford the interest payments without cratering the economy?
3 a large hole in the top of a volcano (= mountain made from liquid rock)
- The meteorite left a crater six feet deep.

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.
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.