crater
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- noun
- /ˈkreɪtər/
- Now scientists have discovered huge craters on the sea floor that suggest giant blowouts of methane.
- impact crater
- volcanic crater
- lunar crater
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Watch on YouTubeAnd, and it didn't leave any crater because it blew up in the sky.
- And, and it didn't leave any crater because it blew up in the sky.
- It's such a massive crater that it can be seen from outer space.
- But there's ice in the craters of Mercury.
- Is it too sandy for a crater to form?
- It didn't really leave a full on crater, but just more of like a dent in the surface.
- And then you pull back and you realize, you know, it's they're in a crater on Earth.
- And we know there is ice water in those or water ice in those craters.
- I'd like to go to the the big crater in where is it?
- Landed big toe left an impact crater by the time they got there.
Examples
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Now covered with soil, at more than 23 miles across, it's the largest crater in North America.
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The largest of these craters, located in the Lavinia region, is 50 kilometers across.
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- Do you see that impact crater?
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But there was no impact crater or other evidence of what had caused the explosion.
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The blast left a crater, 10 metres or 30 feet wide, in front of the hotel.
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It's been difficult to find a meteorite crater of exactly the right age.
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Mars has the largest impact crater in the solar system, Hellas Basin.
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Yeah you're looking at one of the biggest meteorite craters on the planet.
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It was covered in craters, and I don't think anybody fully anticipated that.
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The blast left a crater, 10 metres or 30 feet wide, in front of the hotel.
Synonyms
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A large hole in the ground used for mining
A hole that forms when wood decays or people dig the ground
Antonyms
Compounds
A national park in Oregon with the deepest lake in the United States formed in a volcano crater
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Crater comes from an old Greek word krater that meant 'mixing bowl', so a crater is like a very large bowl in the ground made by an explosion or impact.