debris

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  1. noun The scattered remains of something broken or destroyed; rubble or wreckage.
  2. noun Carelessly discarded refuse; litter.
  3. noun Geology An accumulation of relatively large rock fragments: glacial debris.
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  • And as Number Four's lasers continued to fire, Forsythe realized that the debris was actually shielding the missiles behind it from the attacks. —  Angelmass
  • The process produces enormous amounts of debris, which is disposed by pushing it into adjacent valleys, some of which contain streams. —  t r u t h o u t
  • The contract to remove the debris was awarded to Reconstructive Services on an estimation of 300,000 cubic yards of debris.
  • NEWSCHANNEL 5 has learned the main reason the water hasn't drained off, is debris which is still piled up all over the ground. —  NEWSCHANNEL5 Headlines
  • Ze-Gen uses pre-sorted construction debris which is put through a gasification process, where the trash is heated and put under pressure. —  Medlogs - Recent stories
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rubble ·  dirt ·  ash ·  rubbish ·  wreckage ·  fragment ·  boulder ·  shard ·  gravel ·  particle ·  weed ·  sand
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  1. French débris, from Old French debrisier, to break to pieces : de-, intensive pref.; see de- + brisier, to break (from Vulgar Latin *brīsāre, to press grapes, probably of Celtic origin).

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  1. from French débris, fragments, from Old French desbriser, break apart: see debruise, and cf. breeze.
 

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