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Definition of crater:

The mouth of a volcano, so called from its cup or bowl shaped vent; aperture; a constellation of the S. hemisphere, called the cup.

Synonyms:

plunge, axis, descend, volcanic crater, collapse, fall, flunk, decrease, sunspot, crack, strike out, slump, drop, blowhole, aperture, lower, flop, skid, crash, extinct, lava, vent, corona, flame out, cleft, miss, dip, bomb, magnitude, chink, tank, dwindle, volcano, volcanic, cranny, channel, wash out, dive, shrink, erupt, active, nose-dive, fold, decline, founder, dormant, core, plummet, sink, tumble, diminish.

pit (part of speech: noun)
- chasm,
- hole,
- abyss,
- well,
- deep,
- cavity,
- bottomless pit,
- shaft,
- crevasse,
- pit

Usage examples:

This green crater may perhaps have been formed by digging for sand- so long ago that the turf has since grown over smoothly.

- "Wild Life in a Southern County", Richard Jefferies.
At the bottom of this cup, which perhaps had been the crater of an old- world volcano, lay a pool of water as pure and bright as a diamond.

- "The Magic Skin", Honore de Balzac.
" Santos," he said, " we're in the second crater."

- "Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet", Harold Leland Goodwin.