crater

IPA: krˈeɪtɝ

(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.
(astronomy) A dim spring constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a cup. It lies between the constellations Virgo and Hydra.
(historical) Alternative spelling of krater (“vessel for mixing water and wine”) [(historical) An ancient Greek vessel for mixing water and wine.]
(Scotland, Ireland) Alternative form of creature. [A living being, such as an animal, monster, or alien.]

To form craters in a surface.
(figurative) To collapse catastrophically; to become devastated or completely destroyed.
(snowboarding) To crash or fall.
(video games) To die from fall damage.

Examples of "crater" in Sentences

On top of that, I think they call the crater Darth Crater.
In fact, a crater is quite the opposite of what they should have.
This crater is surrounded by optically dark material, which has been interpreted as volcanic ash deposits.
The crater from the Ranger impact is not well defined in the existing film database, especially as it appears at the boundary between two framelets.
The IDC fleet had recently been equipped with a new kind of battle cruiser, one that would prove to the rebels hiding out in crater bases on the moon that the government was still in control.
If, however, it does break through, the newly-opened terrestrial stream generally flows in such a quiet and well-defined course, that the deep valley, which we term the crater, remains accessible
But isn't there a part of you that wishes that the shiny bottom of the crater is actually the exposed hull of the planet-sized interstellar spacecraft that has been waiting inside it's rocky camouflage for millions of years for intelligent life to discover and re-activate it?
"NASA illustrations" depict a stark burned-in crater underneath the LM descent engine (unrealisticly, and not in accordance with the local circumstances and laws of physics), there has to be one in real life too, and that the absence of same thus has to be "proof" for a faked landing.