"cratering" meaning in English

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        "present participle and gerund of crater"
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          "ref": "1971, Ireland. Oireachtas. Dáil, Parliamentary debates; official report: - Volume 256, page 602",
          "text": "Is the Minister in a position to give the results of ithe Garda investigation of the two latest allegations of deliberate crossings and craterings of Irish roads?",
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          "ref": "2010, John Engledew, The Tungus Event, Or, The Great Siberian Meteorite, page 144",
          "text": "Major craterings are quite apparent on the older and non-reworked faces of the other planets and their satellites.",
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          "ref": "2015, Michael Kurland, The Whenabouts of Burr, page 135",
          "text": "Many of the building fronts bore the pockmarks of rifle or machine gun fire; a few showed the larger craterings of aircraft cannon, and an occasional pile of nibble showed the effects of artillery or bombs.",
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        {
          "ref": "2017, Randall Dean Bryhn, The Chronicles of MU",
          "text": "The moon also hangs as an inhospitable, cold companion in the night, a grim ball that shows many signs of craterings on its surface but not the great number we see now.",
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