crater

noun

• 1a large bowl-shaped cavity in the ground or on a celestial object, typically one caused by an explosion or the impact of a meteorite: the blast left a crater in the car park Ganymede, the largest moon in the solar system, has relatively few impact craters
• a large hollow forming the mouth of a volcano: a great plume of gas and ash rises above the crater
• a cavity or hole in any surface:using the rounded end of a rolling pin, make craters over the surface of the cake

• 2a large bowl used in ancient Greece for mixing wine.

verb

• form a crater in (the ground or a planet):pilots returned to the airfields to crater the runways (as adjective cratered)the heavily cratered areas of the moon