cratered
Speech parts
1. cratered - Adjective
2. cratered - Verb
Meaning
cratered
simple past and past participle of crater
cratered (comparative more cratered, superlative most cratered)
Marked by craters.
The planet had a cratered surface.
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The survivors lay quietly in that cratered void and watched the whitehot stars go rifling down the dark. Or slept with their alien hearts beating in the sand like pilgrims exhausted upon the face of the planet Anareta, clutched to a namelessness wheeling in the night.
Dactyl is heavily cratered, like Ida, and consists of similar materials.
Gently rolling, hilly plains in the regions between craters are Mercury's oldest visible surfaces, predating the heavily cratered terrain.
And just before it stopped…” He fell silent, remembering the stooped and feral shapes crawling across the torn and cratered ground, silhouetted against the sky as flares descended and star-shells burst.
But while those two have garnered plenty of attention this week, no commodity has cratered more spectacularly than palladium, stunning investors with a 30% plunge that included a 20% drop in one day alone in the spot market.
Mariner 4, 6, and 7, and the Mariner 9 orbiter (1972), did not capture images of canals but instead showed a cratered Martian surface.