crater🔊

(astronomy) A hemispherical pit created by the impact of a meteorite or other object. +

(geology) 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.

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

(informal, by extension) Any large, roughly circular depression or hole.

(historical) Vessel for mixing water and wine. +

To form craters in a surface.

(figurative) To collapse catastrophically; to become devastated or completely destroyed. +

(snowboarding) To crash or fall.

(video gaming) To die from fall damage.

(Scotland, Ireland) Creature.