What is another word for cratered?

Pronunciation: [kɹˈe͡ɪtəd] (IPA)

The word "cratered" typically refers to a surface that is covered in depressions or indentations, often resembling the impact craters found on the moon. However, there are several other synonyms that can be used to describe the same type of surface. For example, the term "pitted" can be used to describe a surface that is covered in small depressions, while "dimpled" can convey a similar meaning. Additionally, the word "scoured" can be used to describe a surface that has been stripped of material or worn down over time, resulting in depressions. Other synonyms for "cratered" include "riddled," "roughened," and "scarred".

What are the hypernyms for Cratered?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Cratered

Out here in France now there is a field of honour, stretching for more than a hundred miles, held by British soldiers; and that is a true field of cloth of gold, for everywhere behind the deep belt of cratered land, so barren and blasted that no seed of life is left in the soil, there are miles of ground where gold grows, wonderfully brilliant in the warm sunshine of these days.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs
This mound had been cratered by deep mines in those bad old days of fighting, but the enemy did not know that new shafts had been tunnelled under them, and that explosive forces enormously greater than in the first mines were about to be touched off.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs
The ground was damnable-cratered and full of water and knee-deep in foul mud-and beyond them was high ground, struck through with gully-like funnels, through which the enemy could pour up his storm troops for counter-attack; and away in the mud were the same style of concrete forts as up north, still unbroken by our bombardments and fortified again with new garrisons of machine-gunners, taking the place of those who on July 31 were killed or captured when this ground was stormed and, later, lost.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs

Famous quotes with Cratered

  • My parents had come from Mexico, a short road in my imagination. I felt myself as coming from a caramelized planet, an upside-down planet, pineapple-cratered. Though I was born here, I came from the other side of the looking glass, as did Alice, though not alone like Alice. Downtown I saw lots of brown people. Old men on benches. Winks from Filipinos. Sikhs who worked in the fields were the most mysterious brown men, their heads wrapped in turbans. They were the rose men. They looked like roses.
    Richard Rodriguez
  • 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.
    Cormac McCarthy

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