Crater

Noun

 * 1)  A hemispherical pit created by the impact of a meteorite or other object.
 * 2)  The basinlike 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.
 * 3)  The pit left by the explosion of a mine or bomb.
 * 4)  Any large, roughly circular depression or hole.

Synonyms

 * astrobleme
 * caldera

Verb

 * 1) To collapse catastrophically; implode; hollow out; to become devastated or completely destroyed.
 * The economy is about to crater. -- Attributed by David Letterman to Sen. John McCain. NYTimes blog
 * 1)  To crash or fall.
 * He cratered into that snow bank about five seconds after his first lesson.

Noun

 * 1)  A term of endearment, a dote, a wretched thing.
 * 1843 - I then had the two best tarriers beneath the canopy; this poor crater is their daughter," and he patted the dog's head affectionately.  William Hamilton Maxwell,  Wild Sports of the West: With Legendary Tales, and Local Sketches , Publisher R. Bentley, page 77,
 * 1859 - She is a charming crater; I would venture to say that, if I was not her father. The British Drama: A Collection of the Most Esteemed Tragedies, Comedies ...

Adjectives
extinct; ancient; gaping; active; grass-covered; weed-grown; smoking; exhausted; submerged; cindery; cuplike; thundering; roaring; seething.

Verbs
fly over—; form—; run from—; —boils; — bubbles; —discharges;  —disgorges; — ejects; —emits; —erupts; —forms; —fur¬rows; —hardens; —pours out; —roars; — rumbles; —seethes; —simmers; —smokes; .—spouts; —throws up.

Thesaurus
abysm, abyss, alveolation, alveolus, antrum, armpit, basin, birthmark, blackhead, bleb, blemish, blister, bowl, bulla, cavity, chasm, check, cicatrix, comedo, concave, concavity, crack, craze, crevasse, crypt, cup, deep, defacement, defect, deformation, deformity, depression, depth, dip, disfiguration, disfigurement, distortion, fault, flaw, fold, follicle, freckle, funnel chest, gulf, hemangioma, hickey, hole, hollow, hollow shell, keloid, kink, lacuna, lentigo, milium, mole, needle scar, nevus, pimple, pit, pock, pocket, pockmark, port-wine mark, port-wine stain, punch bowl, pustule, rift, scab, scar, scoop, scratch, sebaceous cyst, shaft, shell, sink, sinus, socket, split, strawberry mark, sty, track, trough, twist, verruca, vesicle, vug, wale, warp, wart, weal, well, welt, wen, whitehead, yawning abyss

Etymology 1
First coined 1613, from crater#Latin: <  κρατήρ: < κράμα: < κεράννυμι:.

Etymology 2
Possibly a diminutive of cratur (dialect form of creature).

Noun

 * Arabic: فوهة البركان
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 撞擊坑,  撞击坑
 * Czech: kráter
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:


 * Hebrew: מכתש (makhtesh)
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: クレーター
 * Norwegian:
 * Russian:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, nedslagskrater
 * Ukrainian:


 * Arabic: فوهة البركان
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 火山口, 噴火口,  喷火口
 * Czech: kráter
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: クレーター, 噴火口
 * Latin:
 * Norwegian:
 * Russian:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, vulkankrater
 * Ukrainian:


 * Arabic: فوهة البركان
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 彈坑, 弹坑
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: מכתש (makhtesh)


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: クレーター
 * Norwegian:
 * Russian:
 * Slovene:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian:

Anagrams

 * carter, Carter
 * tracer

Alternative forms

 * cratera

Etymology
From the romanized form of the (Doric) κρατήρ: (Ionic) κρητήρ: < "to mix, mingle" < κεράννυμι:

Noun

 * 1) A basin or bowl for water or for mixing.
 * 2) The opening of a volcano.