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crater

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1. crater - Noun

2. crater - Verb

3. Crater - Proper noun

Meaning

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.

The pit left by the explosion of a mine.

A constellation of the southen hemisphere; -- called also the Cup.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater. Agnes Smedley

Our autopilot was taking us into a very large crater, about the size of a big football stadium with steep slopes on the crater covered with very large rocks about the size of automobiles that was not the kind of place that I wanted to try to make the first landing. Neil Armstrong

The first one I hit pretty flush with one hand - went about 200 yards. And the second one I shanked, and it rolled into a crater about 40 yards away. Alan Shepard

We didn't know if the rover could climb up or down the hills of the crater. Steven Squyres

The pain of the world is a crater all these syrups and pills a thousandfold would fail to fill. John Updike

[H]umans hate to admit error even as they stand there, black and smoldering, with the stub of a cigarette in one hand, in the middle of a wide crater containing them and the remains of a sign that once read 'DANGER: VOLATILE EXPLOSIVES' James Nicoll

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