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crater

noun

  1. in ancient Greece or Rome, a kind of large bowl or jar shaped like an amphora
  2. a bowl-shaped cavity, as at the mouth of a volcano or geyser
  3. a pit resembling this, specif. one caused by a bomb or by the impact of a meteorite, as on the moon
  4. Astron. a S constellation between Hydra and Corvus

transitive verb

to make craters in

intransitive verb

to form craters

See crater in American Heritage Dictionary 4

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