How to pronounce “crater”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (astronomy) A hemispherical pit created by the impact of a meteorite or other object. [from 1831]
• (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. [from 1610s]
• The pit left by the explosion of a mine or bomb. [from 1839]
• (informal, by extension) Any large, roughly circular depression or hole.
• (historical) Alternative spelling of krater (“vessel for mixing water and wine”).
• [Verb]
• 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.

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