Crater
Crater verb - To go to a lower level especially abruptly.
Usage example: the stock price cratered when the company filed for Chapter 11
Drop
Drop verb - To go to a lower level especially abruptly.
Usage example: although they start out high, prices for home electronics eventually drop
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
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Jack: That's what the hanar call it when you drop that space station I mentioned onto one of their moons and make a new crater. Heh.
Source: Colony Drop -
Apocalypse Wow: In Prospero Burns, the Space Wolves drop a graving dock onto a planet, making a continent sized crater.
Source: Literature / Horus Heresy -
Flash Sentry crushes so heavily on Twilight that that the ground would crater if he could drop it, and Twilight starts showing hints of reciprocation.
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Drop or Crater. 2016. Accessed August 13, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/crater/drop.
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