debris

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(noun.)

ADJ

flying

After the explosion, workers had to clear away the flying debris from the streets.

food, plant, rock

After the storm, workers cleared away piles of rock debris from the damaged road.

garden, industrial, volcanic

QUANT

piece | heap, pile

VERB + DEBRIS

scatter, shower

When the old building came down, broken glass and rubble showered debris across the street below.

clear (away/up), clear sth of, remove

After the storm, workers removed the debris from the streets.

search through, sift through

Workers searched through the debris after the building collapse to find survivors.

DEBRIS + VERB

accumulate

Broken glass and plastic debris accumulated on the beach after the storm.

PREP

among the ~, in the ~

Workers discovered old coins buried in the debris after the building collapsed.

through the ~

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noun

1

Rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed.

His neighbors were still ripping out debris. But Mr. Ryan, a retired bricklayer who built his house by hand 30 years ago only to lose most of it to Hurricane Sandy, was already hard at work rebuilding.

But signalman Bridges was never to answer driver Gimbert's desperate question. A deafening, massive blast blew the wagon to shreds, the 44 high-explosive bombs exploding like simultaneous hits from the aircraft they should have been dropped from. The station was instantly reduced to bits of debris, and the line to a huge crater.

2

Litter and discarded refuse.

[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, […].

3

The ruins of a broken-down structure.

4

Large rock fragments left by a melting glacier etc.

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noun — the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken u

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debris field

Any area, non-dependent of locale, space, or contour, that contains the debris of wreckage, impact, sinking, or other material that once constituted a complete object. Debris fields can be found at the site of air crashes, water vessel sink

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His neighbors were still ripping out debris. But Mr. Ryan, a retired bricklayer who built his house by hand 30 years ago only to lose most of it to Hurricane Sandy, was already hard at work rebuilding

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But signalman Bridges was never to answer driver Gimbert's desperate question. A deafening, massive blast blew the wagon to shreds, the 44 high-explosive bombs exploding like simultaneous hits from th

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[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed th

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First they saw the debris then they looked at each other.

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The cupboards were overflowing with the accumulated debris of several years.

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It's hard to believe that no one was covered by the building's debris in the earthquake this morning.

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debris field

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