cratering

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of crater

plural craterings

1. The creation of a crater on a surface.

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

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

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   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?

   1971, Ireland. Oireachtas. Dáil, Parliamentary debates; official report: - Volume 256, page 602

   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.

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

   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.

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