cratering

English

Verb

cratering

1. present participle and gerund of crater

Noun

cratering (plural craterings)

1. The creation of a crater on a surface.
   • 1971, Ireland. Oireachtas. Dáil, Parliamentary debates; official report: - Volume 256, page 602:

     Is the Minister in a position to give the results of ithe Garda investigation of the two latest allegations of deliberate crossings and craterings of Irish roads?

   • 2010, John Engledew, The Tungus Event, Or, The Great Siberian Meteorite, →ISBN, page 144:

     Major craterings are quite apparent on the older and non-reworked faces of the other planets and their satellites.

   • 2015, Michael Kurland, The Whenabouts of Burr, →ISBN, page 135:

     Many of the building fronts bore the pockmarks of rifle or machine gun fire; a few showed the larger craterings of aircraft cannon, and an occasional pile of nibble showed the effects of artillery or bombs.

   • 2017, Randall Dean Bryhn, The Chronicles of MU, →ISBN:

     The moon also hangs as an inhospitable, cold companion in the night, a grim ball that shows many signs of craterings on its surface but not the great number we see now.

Anagrams

• arrecting, recrating, retracing, terracing