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- Dictionarydebris/ˈdɛbriː/
noun
- 1. scattered pieces of rubbish or remains: "workmen were clearing the roads of the debris from shattered buildings"
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The meaning of DEBRIS is the remains of something broken down or destroyed. How to use debris in a sentence.
broken or torn pieces left from the destruction of something larger: After the tornado, debris from damaged trees and houses littered the town. (Definition of debris from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of debris.
Debris ( UK: / ˈdɛbriː, ˈdeɪbriː /, US: / dəˈbriː /) is rubble, wreckage, ruins, litter and discarded garbage/refuse/trash, scattered remains of something destroyed, or, as in geology, large rock fragments left by a melting glacier, etc. Depending on context, debris can refer to a number of different things.
Debris is trash scattered around after a disaster, like shattered glass on the road after a car accident.
The remains of anything broken down or destroyed; ruins, wreck: a. 1708–. (a) Originally (in English) figurative. (b) In Geology applied to any accumulation of loose material arising from the waste of rocks; also to drifted accumulation of vegetable or animal matter (Page); thence, (c) Any similar rubbish formed by destructive operations. 1708.
Debris definition: the remains of anything broken down or destroyed; ruins; rubble. See examples of DEBRIS used in a sentence.
broken or torn pieces left from the destruction of something larger: After the tornado, debris from damaged trees and houses littered the town. (Definition of debris from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of debris.
n. 1. a. The scattered remains of something broken or destroyed; rubble or wreckage. b. Carelessly discarded refuse; litter. 2. Geology An accumulation of relatively large rock fragments: glacial debris. 3. Biology The fragmented remains of dead or damaged cells or tissue.
Debris is pieces from something that has been destroyed or pieces of rubbish or unwanted material that are spread around.
debris. noun. /ˈdebriː/, /ˈdeɪbriː/. /dəˈbriː/. [uncountable] pieces of wood, metal, building materials, etc. that are left after something has been destroyed. Emergency teams are still clearing the debris from the plane crash. Several people were injured by flying debris in the explosion.
