bomb crater

English

Noun

bomb crater (plural bomb craters)

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

Albanian: please add this translation if you can
Armenian: ձագար (hy) (jagar), ռմբափոս (hy) (ṙmbapʻos)
Belarusian: бомбавая варонка f (bómbavaja varónka)
Dutch: bomkrater (nl) m
Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
Estonian: pommilehter
Finnish: pommikuoppa (fi)
French: cratère de bombe m
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: Bombenkrater (de) m
Hungarian: bombakráter (hu), bombatölcsér (hu)
Italian: cratere di bomba m
Latvian: please add this translation if you can
Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian:
Bokmål: bombekrater n

Nynorsk: bombekrater n
Polish: lej po bombie m
Romanian: crater al unei bombe n
Russian: бомбовая воронка f (bombovaja voronka)
Slovak: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: please add this translation if you can
Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can

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