bomb crater

English

The crater left by a Zeppelin bomb in Paris, 1917

Noun

bomb crater (plural bomb craters)

1. A hole in the ground created by the explosion of a large bomb, usually one dropped by a bomber (aircraft).
   • 1943 September and October, “Notes and News: Locomotive in Bomb Crater”, in Railway Magazine, page 311, photo caption:

     Scene near Ingatestone, L.N.E.R., shortly after the locomotive of a London-Harwich train had fallen into a bomb crater.

Related terms

• explosion crater
• subsidence crater

Translations

hole created by a bomb explosion

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• Belarusian: бомбавая варонка f (bómbavaja varónka)
• Dutch: bomkrater (nl) m
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• French: cratère de bombe m
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• German: Bombenkrater (de) m
• Hungarian: bombakráter (hu), bombatölcsér (hu)
• Italian: cratere di bomba m
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• Polish: lej po bombie m
• Romanian: crater al unei bombe n
• Russian: бомбовая воронка f (bombovaja voronka)
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