cratered

past tense of crater

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for cratered
Verb
  • Smith has completely collapsed.
    Michael Salfino, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Last weekend, on this same stage at Forest Hills, singer-songwriter Lola Young collapsed during her set at All Things Go.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Onscreen, a bridezilla sent an equivalent table soaring through a banquet hall, felling at least one chandelier.
    Vince Aletti, New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2025
  • They’re supposed to do fine in extreme heat and snow, though residents of other cities have had to rescue them when they’ve been felled by weather.
    Scottie Andrew, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The critique echoes larger skepticism in Silicon Valley, where hardware plays like Humane’s AI Pin and Rabbit’s R1 have already flopped.
    Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The movie, which included Adrian Zmed, Christopher McDonald, Lorna Luft, Tab Hunter and Didi Conn reprising her role from the first film as Frenchy, flopped at the box office.
    Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Authorities said at the time that the victim apparently plunged from a steep embankment.
    David Chiu, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2025
  • In the summer of 2022 when inflation was raging at four-decade highs and consumer sentiment plunged to its lowest level on record, Americans continued to spend at a solid clip in the following months.
    Bryan Mena, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Owners of The Grand, 1125 Grand Blvd, claim the parking lot’s owners have failed to provide adequate surveillance and security, and that their failure to do so has bred a hot spot for criminal activity.
    Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Bell concluded that the plaintiffs failed to show that their data was misused as a result of the breach.
    Chase Jordan October 2, Charlotte Observer, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Saturday’s start could’ve tumbled into another painful loss.
    Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Visits to Cracker Barrel tumbled.
    Jordan Valinsky, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Those rosters from the past were mostly homegrown, with a few veterans expertly folded in.
    Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Army leaders say the Switchblade is one of several technologies being folded into armored units as the service adapts lessons from Ukraine and other conflicts, where drones have played an outsized role.
    Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • And in fact, the ratio for Big Tech stocks, which have been driving the market surge, has actually dipped marginally.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2025
  • But by the afternoon shares were down 4%, and Musk’s net worth had dipped down to $490 billion.
    Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2025
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“Cratered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cratered. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.

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