rubble — ozdic

Collocations

9

1

(noun.)

ADJ

brick, rock, stone | building

QUANT

heap, pile

The earthquake left piles of rubble scattered throughout the downtown area.

VERB + RUBBLE

be reduced to

After the explosion, the old factory lay reduced to rubble in the city center.

clear (away)

sift through

Rescue workers carefully sifted through the rubble after the earthquake to find survivors.

PREP

amid/amidst/among/amongst the ~

After the explosion, rescue workers searched amid the rubble for survivors.

beneath/under the ~

Rescue workers searched for survivors beneath the rubble after the building collapsed.

in the ~

After the earthquake, rescue workers searched in the rubble for survivors.

Definitions

noun

1

The broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry.

The main East Coast line from Edinburgh to Berwick was blocked at Cockburnspath and Grantshouse by flood water, which washed away part of an embankment, and by the collapse of about 300 tons of rubble on to the track.

The old boulevard now was a sagging ruin, waiting for the wreckers. … You'd have to loathe yourself vividly to be indifferent to such destruction or, worse, rejoice at the crushing of the locus of these middle-class settlements, glad that history had made rubble of them.

2

A mass or stratum of fragments of rock lying under the alluvium and derived from the neighbouring rock.

The overlying beds are composed of such calcareous rubble and flints, rudely stratified

3

The whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into pollard, bran, etc.

verb

1

To break down into rubble.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

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

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

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01

The main East Coast line from Edinburgh to Berwick was blocked at Cockburnspath and Grantshouse by flood water, which washed away part of an embankment, and by the collapse of about 300 tons of rubble

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02

The old boulevard now was a sagging ruin, waiting for the wreckers. … You'd have to loathe yourself vividly to be indifferent to such destruction or, worse, rejoice at the crushing of the locus of the

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03

Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale.[…]Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and slud

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04

There is a large pile of rubble where the school building used to be.

Tatoeba · #2332771

05

There is a pile of rubble where the building used to be.

Tatoeba · #2399374

06

The building was reduced to rubble.

Tatoeba · #2403695

Usage Notes

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In some senses, rubble is marked as UK. Watch for register when choosing this word.