Betydelse av crater på svenska

• 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.