'cratered' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is often used as an adjective to describe the presence of craters, or as a verb to describe the act of creating craters. Example 1: The lunar landscape was heavily cratered, with hundreds of deep holes dotting the surface. Example 2: The old battlefield was scarred and cratered from years of heavy artillery fire. Example 3: The asteroid's impact cratered the surface of the planet, leaving behind a massive hole that could be seen from space.
As the consumerisation trend continues, the computer industry is being cratered by the onslaught of tablets.
She herself recovered from leg injuries at a third hospital before being taken to a children's home.Still more were torn from their parents as they fled the fighting, over narrow bridges, across treacherous waters and through cratered roadways.
REGULAR Gulliver readers (and most drivers) know that oil prices and, by extension, jet fuel prices—have cratered in recent months.
This hardly qualifies as unusual: Detroit's population has cratered from around 2m in 1950 to below half that today; the city abounds in empty homes and vacant lots.
Employment at doctors' offices, nursing homes and hospitals grew steadily throughout the recession even as it cratered everywhere else (see chart 1).But a few years ago health spending began to slow and now, with a lag, so have the jobs.
SHORTLY after the Federal Reserve hinted in May that it might start to ease its monetary stimulus, rich-country bond yields shot up; emerging-market currencies and stockmarkets cratered.
Early lunar probes revealed a surface that was mountainous, rugged, heavily cratered and virtually devoid of maria.
One common factor in Vietnam and Russia, another country where birthrates have cratered, is that over the past couple of decades both societies have lost what was once a very strong sense of national mission.
On September 8th, the New York Times opined that Mr Rumsfeld had "cratered at the Pentagon".Whatever happens to Mr O'Neill, Mr Rumsfeld is plainly out of the running for early re-retirement.
And although Mathilde may not figure as strongly in the public consciousness as Mars does, her history is equally intriguing.To the eye, Mathilde looks like a cratered chunk of coal, and that impression is supported by spectroscopy.
